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>> city june 21, meeting of the police station. >> good evening, the chair has called the meet to go order. if you can please rise for the "pledge of allegiance". >> i pledge allegiance to the flag. of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
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>> all right, vice president, if i can take roll. >> please. >> commissioner walker. >> present. >> commissioner benedicto is excused. commissioner yanez. >> here. >> commissioner yee is excused. president elias is enroute. vice president oberstone, you have a quorum. >> can you please call item number 1, sergeant. >> line item 1, weekly officer certificate. presentation of of an officer that has gone above and beyond from their duties. from tara station. >> good evening, commissioners, chief scott executive director henderson. first off, i would like to give
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thank you for the community to speak today to present the police officer recognition award. officer perry is a 15-year veteran and assigned to the chair evangelical plainclothes unit. the unit which investigates complex incidents and collaborates with other plainclothes as part of a larger mission to reduce the rise of criminal activity. in addition to officer ferry, he assist his fellow officers. in his tenure, he has participated in over 100 search warrants, offered hundreds of arrest warrants and has been the lead investigator in dozens investigations. one occured in october of 2022, a series of gas station robberies injured in san francisco and in daly city.
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officer ferry was working when one of the incident occured and investigated. he abstained video, through a series of investigative, he was able to locate the owner and along with the owners aid, he was able to track the vehicle and its whereabouts. officer and the team were able to locate the vehicle pulling into another gas station in san francisco. to prevent from another robbery from occurring, officer on scene took the robbery suspect into him entering the gas station. officers recovered a firearm and were able to link him to several armed robberies throughout the bay area. officer determined lead to work for an armed suspect that was
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responsible for the series. this is dedication and commit toment keeping the citizens of the city safe. i have personally known since he first trained at daly station, i was one of his fto sergeant and i can stand here today saying he was one of my best recruits w.that said, i would like to present officer mike for the weekly officer recognition award. [applause] would you like to say some words? >> thank you. thank you for everyone who has trained me, chief, put me on the assignments initially and also everyone i worked with. southern plain growth unit, southern northern mission and my own team, my sergeant and
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everyone there and my family, hey girls. thank you. >> give you your what back? >> spike shirt. >> i thought you said spice rack. >> that too. >> okay, i'll just read award the san francisco police department recognizes michael as officer of the week. in dedication to demonstrate throughout a community practices and inspiring greatness by exemplifying by the police officers as guardians of our community such an example is worthy of the highest esteem by the city and county of the san francisco, presented on the 21st of june 21, 2023.
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>> thank you, i just wanted to thank officer. i understand how's difficult the job is, and you all do some outstanding work, robberies are up for the year and a lot of that is due to small population, in my opinion, that have plagued our city and this is an example of what we need to do to make that better. i thank you and your partners, we appreciate it. >> commissioner walker? >> congratulations, thank you very much for your service. you have been i think all over town, so i know who to call when i have a question. >> what is your favorite station? >> yeah? >> taral. >> good answer. good answer. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> for any member of the public that would like to make public
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comment online item 1, please approach the podium. >> it's good, it's the ambiance was, i mean i know it's honest with your emotions and the sitings. i wish, we didn't have so many problems in town, we have to solve these problems, it's very deep. san francisco is amazing, we're going to find solution to solve them. it's very difficult. >> that's the end of public comment. line item 2, general public comment. at this time, the public is able to address the commission. under police commission rules
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during public comment neither police nor commissioners are required to respond to questions but may provide a brief response. alternately, you may submit a public speaking request. if would you like to make public comment, please approach the podium. >> it's a chance to talk, you know. i believe crimes being committed against me and i have no idea how to say that out loud and come out and say that to your face. i believe the crimes are being committed against me and i cannot help myself. i don't know what is going on. i live in the corner of grove and laguna and at about 4:35, cars come, really going fast,
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past the stop sign and wakes me up. i was homeless for a long time. and i'm kind of just pushed out to all the way to, into the curb has the kind of guy i am. i'm having a hard time understanding why. you know, so i think something is going on. i believe i'm being scammed. i think it's a scam when you look at it it's a scam. i'm being scammed and i'm being hurt, i'm being hurt. and i know people who are watching, people know what is going on and pretend that nothing is going on. i don't know when it's going to stop, i don't know when it's going to end. i think this is dangerous, very bad. but they're violent, people who touch me on the street, i cannot pass by people and i cannot walk. so i'm in prison.
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i think that's imprisonment if you cannot stop. i get assault beside 30 people a day, people touch me, if they touch me, that's assault, i don't understand why? why? what is going on. i've been living here my whole life. i don't get it, why is this happening? why can't i pickup and live? i don't know, i don't know why, you know. okay, thank you. >> i like to use the overhead as usual, i'm paulet brown and i'm here concerning my son aubrey who was murdered august 14, 2006. still today his case is not solved. this is june, july, and then august, is coming up.
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i am every year, within a month or two months before, the anniversary of his murder, i start feeling some type of way. and my feelings come back. even when i look at my children that i have now, that is left, i'm glad that they're here and not laying in a grave somewhere but they come back up about my handsome young boy with the beautiful smile. he existed. he's still my child, even though he's murdered. he's still my baby. i still remember things about him. i just don't want his case, even though it's a cold case, i want to keep it alive in people's eyes in the system's eyes, that we still grief. we still hurt for our children. i still hurt even mothers and fathers are still hurting. i dwael his father all the
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time, he does not act like he's hurting but i know he does. this is all the people involved with murdering my child. i'm not going to read their names, i don't have much time. i show these pictures because i want them to know. i talk with my words but i want them to see. and it's just not for me, it's just for sf gov. television to see it and those mothers out there that may be watching this. nobody wants their parents to stand over a casket. these are all the unsolved homicides, they have not been solved. how do we solve these unsolved homicides? i'm not standing here each time just to,; i don't know. thank you.
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>> again. i was prepared to say a big thing, but i'm not ready, i think it's, we have to make sure i think, again i'm going to repeat the idea responsibility, critical thinking but so. remember something please. emotional disorder is contagious. so we are dealing with a push from the tien fraction of humanity. let's face it they're dealing with emotional disorder. it's totally out of control. we have to control this, that's going to be the solution we are dealing with sick people. so we know this, but make sure
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there are ways, i don't inspect you. it's getting very. you're going to lose your jobs. it's going to be robert. pay attention, now. we don't have much time just, okay, i'll be back to tomorrow. i think we have the solution to address these guys for what they are, they are sick. we are not hopefully. so, have a nice night.
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>> we're approaching 800 going intentional and unintentional fentanyl. consumers consent san francisco now drug, tourist destination. and they handout needles, we lost 900 people. have been released from custody and of the 300 overdoses, what fraction or percentage are now among the dead, drug dealers
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may increase fatalities to proof arguments against increased arrests. so yeah, they can work to scue the numbers if they would like and then that bolt sters the health point the point of the supervisors that say, that is arresting drug users results in increased fatalities. so that is a portion of the 900 dead to get an idea of what that looks like. thanks. >> president elias, that's the end of public comment. line item 3, consent calendar receive and file. march and april, 2023. >> can i get a motion? >> motion to approve. >> i'll second. >> sergeant? >> members of the public that would like to make public comment recording line item 3,
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consent calendar please approach the podium. and there is no public comment, commissioner walker. >> yes. >> commissioner yanez. >> yes. >> commissioner byrne. >> yes. >> vice president oberstone? >> yes. >> and president elias. >> yes. >> you have five yeses. >> next item. >> line item 4, weekly discussion, provide an overview of the incidents or events occurring having an impact on public safety. will be limit today determining for calendar for a future meeting. chief scott. >> thank you, sergeant young good, good evening, president elias, executive director henderson and public. i'll start this week's chief report with major incidents as we had a major incident over the weekend. and that was the shooting at the embarcadero and in the area of pier 39.
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this happened at about 6:53 p.m., or 6:49 p.m. actually, on june 18th, this past father's day on sunday. a car to car shooting between the occupants of two weeks resulted in two victims sustaining gunshot wounds. one victim was jird which was a ten-year-old which was hit and his sister was also struck but no injure aoeg requiring transportation to the hospital were sustained. so this shooting started at stockton and beach, the incident started at stockton and beach. what we know at this point, there was some type of dispute between the occupants of the two vehicles that resulted in the exchange of gun fire and
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that incident and travel, toward pier 39 and south on the embarcadero traveled for almost a mile and a half and ended half. numerous shots were fired during this mile-plus, car to car incident. as i said, there were a total of, outside of the victims that were shot there were a total of 4 people that why injured and the other girl that was hit but not transported. this was a horrific incident, our officers got there in about four minutes and there were numerous calls that came n.paramedic and medics got there and finally located the victim and this resulted in the two individuals who were transported who we believe were involved with this incident. one of the individuals, the male has been booked for an
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outstanding felony warrant, weapons related and also for, wreckless discharge of a firearm. so that investigation is still open and on going, there is a lot of video out there that our investigators are trying to go through, comb through to put together the exact picture of what happened. we do think that we made progress in this case but that's all i can report at this point. luckily nobody was killed in this incident because it was horrific. a lot of people out, pier 39 as we know is very popular destination for both our city residents and people who visit our city. we were very fortunate that this was not worse than what it could have been. couple of other incidents that happened, it was also a very significant shooting in the tenderloin in the on june 13th
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at 1:37, this resulted in a homicide. officers respond today a shoot anding found the victim lying on the sidewalk. the officers rendered aid until the to the victim who was transported to the hospital where the victim later succumbed to the injuries. no arrest was made, our investigating are making some progress and we will keep the public and the commission posted in the results as we get them. there were four shooting incidents this week resulting in four victims and two unknown victims that i just reported on one. there was another shooting in the 400 block of turk, numerous subjects were involved in the altercation and one victim was dead and left the scene. that person collapses in the 200 block of levinworth, later, second victim was shot. they flagged down a unit that summoned on ambulance, they
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called for stabbing victim who then responded the person. that is still under investigation, no arrest made yet on that particular incident. it was another incident at mcallister and hide. officers responded to the san francisco general hospital for call of a self transported gunshot victim. the driver was detained and interviewed by the sheriffs but the location of the shooting has not been determined. so no arrest has been made on that incident yet. on polk and post at 3:33 am, officers respond today several shots fired and found, people who called reported two victims lying on the street and possible gunshot wounds. officer did not locate any victims and the search was negative. so we have not verified that anything was shot from that incident.
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we did however recover multiple rounds and various caliber extended casings from the scene. officers located several witnesses but have not been able to locate any shooting victims or suspects from this incident as of yet. that investigation is on going. couple of other significant sdintsds, we had a significant arrests this was an aggravated assault hate crime incident arrest and a commercial robbery. this injuried at on june 12th and 1200 block of tomas street. two subjects entered a towing business volving selling of a vehicle. the subject ordered the victim to the ground at gun point and kicked the victims multiple times. there was about 2000 on the counter quh the subjects grabbed the money and fled.
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san francisco officer attempted to stop vehicles as they fled in different locations. officers located one vehicle which was empty. witnesses directed officers to a suspect. the subject and vehicle one subject and another vehicle still remain outstanding. so good effort on the officers but we still have work to do on that one. i will wrap this up with a recap on our efforts in tenderloin. received 300 grams of fentanyl. to date in 24 weeks, that's increase of 149 percent compared to seizures this time last yaefrment total narcotic that includes all type of
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narcotic is 95.426 grams. that's an increase over last year. in terms of for possession of sales, we have 390 individuals arrested. we had 566 for the totality of 2022 so going at the pace that we're going we'll exceed that. and most of the arrest is sales of fentanyl in terms of the other effort to curve the other usage. of those 4 people that have identified or were identified as being from the city of san francisco. so that trend conditions as well. california patrol released their statistics that i made sure commissioners received and for the public, that included 92 total arrests and 18 driving
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under the influence arrest, 6 drug recognition expert evaluations, 7 non fentanyl arrests, 19 fentanyl drug arrest. 122 vehicles, 41 stolen vehicles recovered. and a recovery of 428 grams of fentanyl. 957 grams of pheting and 2 19 grams of coke rain and 31 grams of heroin. and 8,000 grams of cannabis and grams of various pills. and this was released by the governor's office of state of california. i will update the commission and the public when we get the next release of the statistics. and last thing general crime trends, homicides we're one above where we were last year,
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23 as compared to 22, total of violent crimes, we are up 3%, total property crimes we are down 6% and that is a 5% reduction and total of part one crime. and year to date is 91 percent and that concludes my report. >> thank you, chief. i was wondering is the department doing anything or making any efforts to address the four shootings that have happened this week? or the up take in shootings? >> the shootings this week, we department believe, yes we are first of all, the investigation of those shootings is intense and on going. there are, there were other shootings three other shootings. two of the three we believe are related, those were two shootings where we have not been able to determine where
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they happened or whether they happened in the city. and then the, there was a shooting on the freeway which the california highway patrol is handling even though it occur in the city, it's their jurisdiction, we will assist if requested on that shooting. and then the homicide in the tenderloin which we believe, well, can't spill the motive what we believe, but we made some good progress and we do believe that we're going in a really good direction in that case. overall these shootings appeared not to have been grouped or gang-related, at least one that we know about this week. so there is no connection except for the one that we believe is related. and we don't believe that's a gang-related shooting as well. part of our strategy, i mean,
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being that these isolated incidents, it's like the embarcadero, helps to have coverage so. we we adjusted our patrols to up our coverage in embarcadero. and the mission last week, that person of interest has been taken into custody. that investigation is still on going. we don't have any indication that we're going to have any retal tory shootings. a lot of this is getting out with the community, and making sure that they have the latest information. presence helps as people feel uncertain and they're upsetting when you have a shooting in your neighborhood. in terms of our overall shooting strategy, that has not changed and that is geared on. and making sure that we, that we try to get those individuals
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and their families before, they get involved. so that effort is on going. we are, significantly above where we were last year in terms of that type of engagement, trying to invite the people that we believe are at-risk. and that is going to be on going strategy because we know, what we know in terms of the people in the city that are most at-risk. so that's really the kruks of our issue. >> thank you, president elias. a couple of questions, chief, so the mission street shooting you believe that to be gang-related? >> we, and the person of interest does have affiliation that does not mean that it was affiliated by any gang-related circumstances.
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but that person of interest, let me say this just to be clear. there is more work to be done on that case. there is evidence that we have discovered that needs further work but there is no indication that it was motivated by gangs. >> i understand your distinction. as regards the shooting over at pier 39, is that gang-related? >> we don't have any indication that that is gang-related right now at all. >> sxl one of the individuals is under arrest and the other person is in the hospital, still? >> i believe that person has been released but they have not been placed under arrest yet. there is still a lot of investigation to do. >> so one of the people that was, in the black sedan for lack of a better word has been arrested by the san francisco police. >> yes, the person in the black
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suv was booked by our department. >> and the other person was released? >> the other person was. >> he was in the black sedan as well. >> it was a lady and she, that person has not been arrested. >> okay. and finally, chief as regards, the m.o. u with the district attorney's office, is there any update on that? >> the current m.o. u is still in place and just, still work, we have, well we're down as far as the mou and that's been given to the commission and posted publicly. so it's a mat per of agendizing that, not to the final conclusion. >> but given the mou to the police commission? >> yes. >> thank you.
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>> thank you, president elias, chief thanks for the report. just wanted to confirm the pilot team in the tenderloin that is meant to arrest drug users, is that still 8 officers and one sergeant? >> it's still 8 officers and a sergeant yes. >> are there any plans to expand it? >> we will expand to do more in the night hours >> and can you say what that may look like? >> i don't have the number now. a lot of this has to balance but we will expand it, but as we, figure out how to big that unit can be, i will let you all know. >> thank you. wanted ask you about the chp,
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it was publicly reported last week that the chp is making pretax stops in the tenderloin at least. were you aware of this? >> well, i definitely saw that report. i believe the commissioners and everybody that i talked to in chp has a different opinion than what was reported. and what they said from the start, they do not pretext stop, including violations. but they do not do that for the purposes of some other investigation. >> their pr officer like end it to fishing. >> their pr person for the
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public, reported fishing, fishing for criminals, seems like that's a kind of definition of a pretext stop. but you're saying that the chronicle got it wrong. >> well i'm saying with my kfrtionz with the detail as well as the san francisco chp officer does not agree and share that opinion. i cannot say what the pr told the chronicle, i was not part of that conversation. i cannot validate, i can tell what the commissioner told me. >> okay, thank you, that's everything for me. >> commissioner yanez. >> thank you, president elias. i had a couple of questions, my understanding, there were there for numbers, 91 and 53 citation south side what i read somewhere.
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>> nobody has accepted treatment upon release? not yet? >> and do we plan to continue with the strategy? i'm >> yes, i'm hopeful that changes. i just want to make sure that the public and the commission understand, we're not confusing health addiction services from the criminal justice part of this. you know, they're there should be as part of the commissioner sfrs. we're trying to change the
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culture of the streets where people use openly. and the one tool that we do v to do that, we have engaged with folks that do that, but we have not gone past that. we sited in the past but we have not tried to get people off the streets. and the overall goal is to try to get people to help. and hopefully, some of them if not as many as possible will take up that offer. and hopefully, people can accept and accept whatever my understanding is that there is a second offer. >> i remember last week, you mentioned the lead program, is there any possibility of we
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opening or revisiting that possibility of providing that in alternative for detension. >> it's not in the budget this year. when we did the pilot, the police department did not ask or receive any additional funding. we just used the resources that we had to do that program. but the other agency needed some funding. as far as we know, the participating agencies have not requested it's not in the table right now. hopefully we can revisit that. >> last question around some of the reports around the
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incidents with the chp, i understands that there were guns drawn at that point. are there suggestions coming from our department on how those efforts from external parties impact the perception of the policing in san francisco and how that is going to have an impact on our department. >> yeah, we have not had any incidents that have risen to the level of debrief, and the effectiveness of the program and it's not just the sta statistic that we have. i think time will tell whether that is a factor.
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i can say this, i have goent a lot of community feedback, i have not received any negative feedback on how the chp is communicating. i have not gotten any negative. we have not had any incident together that rudder a tactical debrief. definitely those conversations have been happening. and the answer to vice president oberstone, what my office has been, they have their own poll size but they do understand, fully understand that this needs to be done the right way. >> and in the sake of clarity
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are there new services being offered? >> i don't know if they're new. the services that, well i don't believe that they're new. the services that have been available and made available are still the same services as far as i know. there are addiction services across the city. some of our cbos those are still in existence. i don't believe there is anything at this point. it really trying to focus on making sure that the people particularly if they have been arrested, that they get at least an opportunity to partake in those services. >> got it, thank you chief. >> thank you, president elias. the issue of the treatment, i know that we have when we did
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our resolution around the heart recommendations or the cart recommendations, we also included making sure that we were aimed at the heart which is the public health department of emergency services. i know you're all discussing that hand off as it were. are the s*efshses available when you're in the conversation? are there people ready to take people to a different area? like if they want to go to treatment? are there people there to transport as partners? is the partnership working, i suppose?
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that entails a couple of things, somebody using when officers come up on them and/or, in a state where they're not doing well. we had one but to answer your question, i do understand and know that dph is out with their street medicine they are out and trying to engage while we're doing what we do. and then the services are offered when they get booked or when they get sited or and/or
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when they get released. and toes arrested were local, is that the number on this current? >> it's probably more than that. as of today, there were four people either identified that they were from san francisco or records that they were identified. most of them were either out of city or out of state. and i have a question about that robbery. do you think that people are
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aware of the activity at the location? sometimes we've seen these type of robberies around and somebody shows up and because they are aware of it. was it just an arbitrary thing that happened. do you know if there was planning around it. we do have some showing up to be a car. so we have seen those. i don't know, i don't know that that was the case on this one. and i will follow-up but i don't have that answer in the briefing that i have. but that is a thing that we see.
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>> for members of the public that would like to make a public comment, please approach the podium. >> good evening, again, i just want to report on the article that was published october 19, 2022. about zero dollars being paid out foyer homicides nearly a decade. managing this so they can find outweighs to pay tip sters whether they have criminal records or not, whether they're involved with the crime. find me a way to pay them so they can, so that the case can be solved.
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there is people that saw that and they want to come forward. money talks, it does talk, it will help. there is 250,000 reward sitting right here. where is this money at? where is it? can i go talk to them? can i talk to somebody about finding ways, other way to see pay tip sters to find out about unsolved homicides? i come here asking this, somebody can do something. hire somebody.
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i'm tired of being passer fied. i want other way to see get tipsters. my son's anniversary is coming up, 17 years. it's been 17 years. nobody wants to go through this. i'm tired. >> president elias that's the end of public comment. item number 5, report on dpa director's discussion. director henderson. >> award winning, director anderson. >>--henderson. >> multi.
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i'll keep my report short this week. dpa has opened 340 case thz year and we have 265 cases currently pending. we sustained 29 case sxz mediated 14 cases. we have 20 investigation that's have gone beyond the 9-month period. and 19 of those cases are told with criminal or civil cases that are pending. with outstanding decisions, waiting, we have six case that's are waiting for commission decisions. and we have 88 cases that are outstanding waiting for chief decisions. in terms of the weekly trends, this week, the number one allegation with 21% of the cases, were for allegations of an officer failing to take
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required action. and the 2 highest stations there were two this year with three cases each, i had the most allegations from this week. in terms, i don't have, updates for out reach or audit, we've been very busy this week with intern program. i'll continue to give you periodic reports. we have two administrative case that's are in closed session. in the hearing room with us, is chris senior investigator and also jenel kaywood who is our director of policy. that is here today. for folks that are interested in contacting dp a, website is
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sf-got.org, 415-241-7711. we have cases that are on the consent calendar, i think we approved them. i promised the commission that i was going to return with a summary of the things that we talked about from last week, i'll still working on that but i'm going to give that to you. that's the new agreement with the department of publishing last week's discussion items. i'm working on it and put it together but i want to give them to the chief before i present it here. >> thank you, director anderson. did i miss, have we made any progress on the chief's hearings? has there been any? >> hello, the numbers are the same, is that what you mean. >> all right, sergeant. >> for members of the public that would like to make public, please approach the podium.
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>> i'm going to say good night, it was going to be about the chief's report. i think it has become critical. what is a police officer? for example? i don't want to offend anything but i don't think it's your role . you're not a doctor, so people, problem with drugs and everything. the blurring of the lines here, we're getting in total confusion, that's no good.
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it's now. thanks. >> line item 6, commission reports and possible action. commissioner discussion will be limited to calendar future meeting. commissioners reports and commissioner announcements identified for consideration at a future commission meeting. >> vice president. >> just a quick one from me. yesterday we had a working group meeting for d g.o. 110, activity that was scheduled to be the last working group.
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although there seems to be unanimous consent that we needed one more. so it will be back by popular demand in two weeks which would be our final working group on that policy. >> thank you. commissioner walker? >> commissioner walker: thank you, president elias. a couple of things, when is that i, i have been having on going discussions with some community folks and department folks about the patrol specialist program, we're hoping to present to the commission next month to get an idea where the commission stands. and i really appreciate the efforts on behalf of the department to engage in that conversation. it may be helpful on some of the issues talking about the different roles out on the street.
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and i recommend this for all commissioners, if you have not gone. i had a wonderful tour of the crime lab, very new building. i think it was finished just before covid. really amazing and interesting. i want to thank director powell for meeting me there and showing me around. it's really interesting and very impressive and i just, i would like to sort of introduce this topic because i brought it up to director powell and had also discussed at an event, i cannot remember the head of homicide investigations. the issue of that has been brought up here a lot. how it's possible to do a different type of award to help investigations move along.
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i have to say, everybody thinks it's a really good idea. and figure out what our restrictions are. now i think that they are described and defined by statute that it has to lead to a conviction of some sort. i would like to look at that and see if it's possible. president yanez. >> councilmember yanez: thank you. i want to thank the staff for turning the dgo draft and turning it around so quickly. i already sense and feel that
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there are some improvements, thank you for incorporating some of the feedback already provided. sometimes our tough conversations lead to better products and this is one of our incidents where we will walk away with much improved policy. since we're losing the first week of july, i would like to postpone until july first so we can get as much as community input as possible, if that's okay, that's something that would allow us to expand the community process. and the other update i have, i did meet once again with some of the folks at the referral center.
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i'm still preparing to launch the prebooking program. and i have one specific question for you chief, when we get to the point of beginning to initial the process, i know this has been a process that has taken place for over a year as far as figuring out what the mechanics and the community entity and the department to enact and initial a prebook program. are we prepared to devote the natural resources as far as staffing to be able to begin that process once we get to that place where we're ready to launch this program? >> yes we've had some talk about what that would look like.
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depending on what type of fence. it's a pretty small population of offenders. just based on the sites. so i'm actually getting more data from chief miller from juvenile probation so we can know exactly at least year to date and as much as you can provide. right now it's a small universe so i do think that will allow us the ability to get this off the ground. we're still in discussion of what that will look like. we'll be prepared. >> i do intend as i mentioned last week, put together a resolution to initiate the process.
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if we don't prioritize, i know our community partners are interested in launching this, from my understanding, chief miller is in support of us going in this direction so i'm hoping that those conversations continue to happen and we can launch this as soon as possible. i think that the july department on this update? >> we can present this as far as where we are with it. i don't anticipate that we'll be launching. >> great. and on another note, i you know, consider it and i want to thank you and the department
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for the responses. that's a coverage responded within four minutes, i understand four minutes and contained the situation. i really want to send my appreciation. i know you were up late at night making sure that communication was clarified examine contained. and it lead me to start thinking about at some point last year, we had a presentation around community policing plans. and i really feel that considering the increase and shootings and gun violence this year and incident of violence this year, it would be a great opportunity for us to have a presentation about what the community engagement division is doing to to create more relationships to get young people into services and treatment.
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to really improve our relationship with the communities that we serve. >> sergeant? >> for members of the public that would like to make public comment. please approach the podium. >> and there is no public comment. >> next item please. >> line item 1. discussion pride alliance on sfpd pride patches, discussion? sergeant winters? >> hello welcome, thank you so much for coming. >> thank you, president elias, vice president oberstone and chief scott and director anderson. i know some of the commission
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were not in the commission when this was approved back in 2019. i want to give an overview how the pride patch came about and the impact it has had here and around the country. and also san francisco pride alliance in support of chief scott. so next slide. so pride alliance, the purpose is public employee group. we're not a union but we advocate for lgbtq members. anyone who knows, histories knows that once about a time somebody like me a trans women could not serve openly much less get hired. so advocate for members continue to go ensure that we, are out there in the community attracting members of our lgbtq community to this profession.
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i believe we need a police forced to build relationship within the city. that's part of the proud alliance. we also work collaboratively with the department on policies which impact lgbtq community. over the years some of those have been the san francisco police department lead the way on our policy, around interacting the transgender and non binary individuals, i still get inquiries from around the country that want to mirror our policy. so it's at the collaboration that we can guide policies that help ensuring that policing is more equitable with lgbtq. and we work with officers for justice, going back to trying to advocate for our officers and recruited workforce.
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part of that collaboration just an example a few years ago, we actually, all of the, the peg groups as they're known met with the director of dhr we had concerns and questions to understand the eao process, how that process went. so, collaborative we work with dhr to create more transparency for our members. and then we meet with the chief monthly to discuss issues that affect our members and the lgbtq. next slide. so the pride patch was initialed in 2019, officer patulia who was suppose to be but he had to stay and help serve our city. it was support and champion by chief scott, thank you chief.
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and create not only a bridge to gap between lgbtq community and sfpd but also to benefit lgbtq community organizations. 2019, the commission approved the wearing of the patch, thank you. and we became the first law enforcement country in the nation to authorize officers to wear a pride patch during pride month. so really sfpd really leading the way. local impact of the pride patch project, since 2019, we raised over 19,000, we've raised 19,000 in our first year. that was first year alone. and our inaugural was street use. so we're able to present them for with a check for $19,000 to help some of the most marginized members of the community our youth, kicked out
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by their families and come to san francisco to find a chosen family and larkinstreet helps them and we were able to directly benefit them. program to date, we raised over $30,000. the most resent castro country club, which is services to lgbtq members and lgbtq community. and also, lance was honored by the board of supervisors for this ground break project. national impacts department around the country are authorized the wearing of the pride patch. it's increased awareness, officers in law enforcement, and departments around the country continue to use sfpd as a leader, not only around policy reform but on our lgbtq policies. they serve as a framework for a lot of departments. if you look at the patches,
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it's coast to coast, east coast, west coast, middle of the country, even florida, there is departments in florida that have adopted pride patches. you know, i see this as a huge benefit. when we're out on the streets, when we wear a pride patch, it's a conversation starter a lot of times. people realize, like, you know, they can be seen because a lot of folks don't realize, there are still cities and communities in this country where people from the lgbtq community don't feel safe going into law enforcement and there are some communities where it's not safe and when they come here, we want them to see that here in san francisco, they are safe coming to us. that we are here to protect, that they see them. we have members to meet them where they're at and the pride patch is part of that.
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and the future pride alliance, the last couple of years have been exciting. last year was the first year pride alliance partnered with the other public safety agencies in the city. we're continuing that and we're going to expand our representation to the sheriff and the police department. because we want to ensure no matter what part of the public safety, lgbtq, people in the city meet, that they that those departments are prepared to help them, whether it's policies, training, we want to ensure all public safety on the same page when it comes to helping the lgbtq community. and also representing lgbtq departments in all of those departments. going into our next fiscal year, we're going to work on the pride alliance umbrella. and so i just want to thank you
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for pride alliance board. thank you for your support of the pride patch package. the fact that we've been able to make an impact, means a lot, means a lot to me. means a lot to our members. >> thank you again for coming. one of the things that i ask is that you send us the link so we can donate to the cause. i'm the only member of this commission that was here in 2019 to be able to get the patches and the shirt. and we had to modify >> so make sure that you give us the link so we can spread the word and get people to donate to this amazing cause.
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>> thank you, and i did bring swag, commissioner walker asked that i bring some swag so i did bring some. so if anybody wants to purchase smig tonight with the caveat, our shirts got delayed so they're going to be here in a day or two. and if you're out in the pride parade on sunday, we'll have our new shirts at the event which have the new pride alliance logo in the back and sfpd in the back and the progress pride colors. >> great. you already got your free stuff, you're done? >> i don't know where it went. >> thank you so much. thank you for the work you do. i was just coming on board last year at this time and we had a really, emotional community conversation describing exactly what people have to go through,
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you know. the community here and you were amazing, representing the lgbtq folks to march in the pride parade. and as a result, umared and you know, it's, it's the situation that a loted of us come here because we're not accepted in other places and that was especially painful for a lot of us going through that conversation. so i just want to applaud you for the work you did on that. and i want to applaud the pride, the pride organization for really being inclusive and supporting our police especially the pride alliance. and if you allow commissioners, i would be honored to join the pride alliance.
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>> absolutely. >> and i do want swag. >> you definitely want swag. >> i'm marching. >> and t-shirt. >> exactly. thank you, thank you and thank you all for the work you do and thank you chief for being so supportive and the department. so we need our allies. >> absolutely. and the chief has been a tremendous. >> i understand and we really appreciate it. >> thank you. i just want to also say thank you, sergeant winters who is an extra leader in this and other--extraordinary leader. and the board then and now, always really standing up for what is right. and elevating issues that need to be addressed. and also the community engagement component. you all do a tremendous amount of work.
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you help us and walk together in the parade and that was thanks to your work. so the community engagement, i want to highs light that as well. i know this is about representation and inclusiveness and all, there is a lot of groundwork being done to put this department in a better position in terms of the relationship, and that's in large part due to you all, thank you, thank you for your leadership. >> thank you, chief. >> vice president carter-oberstone. >> thank you sergeant winters, i was one of the commissioners that waunz here. i appreciate the history and context and wanted to thank you so much for your service and for your work in the issue. i think the pride patch is unmitigated good, you raised money for an important cause and it's a it's a relatively small thing that sends a big
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message. to the community about what the department's values are. i'm really glad that i got to learn more about this today. >> thank you, vice president. >> for members of the public that would like to make public comment, please approach the podium. and there is no public comment. >> next item please. >> line item 8, any public comment on closed session, vote whether to hold item 10 in closed session. if you would like to make public comment, please approach the podium. and there is no public comment. line item 9, vote on whether to hold item 10 in closed session. action. >> can i get a motion?
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vice president? >> motion. >> i'll second. >> thank you. >> on the motion commissioner waker how do you vote? >> walker? >> yes. >> commissioner walker is yes. commissioner yanez. >> yes. >> commissioner byrne. >> yes. >> vice president carter oberstone. >> yes. >> and president elias. >> yes. >> you have five yeses. we will go into closed session.
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>> line item 11, vote to elect whether to hold disclose any information or assert the attorney-client privilege. action. >> can i get a motion. >> motion not to disclose. >> second. >> on the motion, commissionr walker >> yes. >> commissioner yanez. >> yes. >> commissioner byrne. >> yes. >> vice president carter oberstone. >> yes. >> and president elias. >> yes. >> you have five yeses. line item 12, adjournment.
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i'm nicole and lindsey, i like the fresh air. when we sign up, it's always so gratifying. we want to be here. so i'm very excite ied to be
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here today. >> your volunteerism is appreciated most definitely. >> last year we were able to do 6,000 hours volunteering. without that we can't survive. volunteering is really important because we can't do this. it's important to understand and a concept of learning how to take care of this park. we have almost a 160
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acres in the district 10 area. >> it's fun to come out here. >> we have a park. it's better to take some of the stuff off the fences so people can look at the park. >> the street, every time, our friends. >> i think everybody should give back. we are very fortunate. we are successful with the company and it's time to give back. it's a great place for us. the weather is nice. no rain. beautiful san francisco. >> it's a great way to be able to have fun and give back and walk away with a great feeling.
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for more opportunities we have volunteering every single day of the week. get in touch with the parks and recreation center so come good
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morning, everybody. an experience standing here with my felto community leaders and kicking off pride 2023, as the first drag laureate of san francisco! and the world. [laughter]. so. it is -- such an honor. san francisco, you have made a choice to put a spotlight on the
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lbgtq+ community as a crucial at a crucial time making me an ambassador to the world of drag art. yes, law makers are attacking the rights of lbgtq+ individuals all overnight country. here in san francisco, the pride flag is proudly flown, and a drag laureate appointed to elevate and honor accomplishments of our community! now, as a san francisco nay than i means the world to me. i watched san francisco change and change again, one thing remained, san francisco celebrates individualities. it applauds people marching to the beat of their own drum i would be hard pressed to find another city or country -- or
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anywhere in the globe where the lbgtq+ community has big a voice as we do here in san francisco. [applause] at this the 53rd sf pride a month in the largest garthing of lbgtq+ people and alis in the nation. i want to take a moment and appreciate the flag we all associate with gay pride, designed by gilbert. baker a request from the assistant district attorney's first openly gay supervisor in 1978. that's a big deal! [applause]. the theme of pride this month is looking back and moving forward. essential that we acknowledge the past pidmeers iconic class of our upon history that made it possible for me to stand here
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before you today. >> and to continue to break new ground, drag is many things. drag is art. drag is activism, drag is joy. drag is instrumental to bringing people together. drag is fabulous. [applause]. i say this over and over but it is worth reminding ourselves every day. if we can live a more authentic life, if we can walk through the world just a little more fabulous we inspire other people to be more fabulous. if everyone in the world was a little more fabulous, there would be that much less room in their heart and mind for anger, hostility, prejudice and
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violence. >> right? here is the deal. you live a more fabulous limp every day and you have power for social change every day by being more fabulous that is everyone's job here today! [applause] as your drag laureate i'm dedicated to continuing my life's mission to uplift my fellow members of the lbgtq+ community spread joy throughout and maintain a deeper knowing to the rich legacy of the lbgtq+ trail blazers that made it possible for all of this to be happening. i will continue to celebrate and elevate the art of drag. that is capitol a. r. t. through my night club oasis. oasis art, as well as my partnership with the city of san francisco. san francisco film commission to create access and resources for
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my community. i'm excited work with the city and the drag community to create a drag festival. yes. >> we are anything to work on creating one. would you love to see your supervisors in a drag contest? [laughter] and the mayor, too. give each a drag parent. would you pay for that? i want this festival to be fabulous entertainment. include the drag story hour, bring all of it together and have an educational component to it. it is very important. i would also like to work with the city and find some of our empty retail space and create opportunity for lbgtq+ as well as drug entrepreneurs to have an opportunity to bring back some
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brick and morltar with sparkle. right? and fabulousness. and make it not only viable for the community but sense of excitement for tourism to come, see your drag stores. right? i got lots i'm working on there. well, i gotta wrap this up. i am thrilled have the opportunity to participate in shaping the role of the drag laureate for myself and for generations to come and hopeful low this can be inspiration for folks around country and the globe. and to really appreciate what drag simple somebody asks, why is drag important? i said why is theatre, pip and fine art important? drag is art. elevate, celebrate your drag artists and san francisco has done that upon at the forefront of anywhere in the united
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states. i am so proud to be part of this community, please allow me to introduce another upon san francisco native, supporter of san francisco art and culture and vulnerable communities and someone clearly recognizes the power of fabulous. give it up for mayor london breed. [applause]. >> thank you, darcy. and the job description as many of you know for our drag laureate is to be absolutely fabulous and that is what darcies i want to appreciate the work i know you will continue to do to uplift the community as you serve in this capacity. and also look amazing in the
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process of doing it. so thank you all so much and i want to acknowledge the official ban of the city and county of san francisco. the lesbian/gay freedom ban! thank you very much. i wanted to say if feels good to be here today. i realize there are so many people that want to participate in the flag raising ceremony is growing. we will have to grow in another space after today. so that we can ensure there is room for everyone who wants to celebrate and uplift this extraordinary community. i appreciate i know you will hear from the elected officials today. i want to appreciate them for being here. starting with lieutenant govern. and i will ask you to save your applause because i gotta go down all the list of everyone.
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our state controller cohen. supervisor mandelman. supervisor matt dorse. supervisor steph neechl supervisor melgar. and our assessor recorder joaquin torres and the members of the sheriff's departmentful thank you very much for being here. and we have our treasurer jose cisneros. senator scott wiener and other elected leaders. city councilmember of elcertito! carmen chu. and a company others which i don't know everyone's name and there are a bunch on this list for the sake of getting this program going some will speak in a moment. thank you to the pride board and folks joining us in this celebration.
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celebrities in the house. tom horn for your support. everyone is here. if i didn't say your name raise your hand. we have department heads. commissioners. we have people from all parts of san francisco and all parts of the bay area. because san francisco is the place to be for celebration. it is time that instead of being down on san francisco purke back on san francisco and talking mess about san francisco it is time to celebrate why san francisco is special and better than every other city. >> because some of those same cities are debating about whether or not they should raise the pride flag. same cities debating whether or not they should introduce proclamation to
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declare lbgtq+ pride month in any city. some cities debate over 500 new laws antilbgtq+. they want to talk mess about san francisco because here we are doing it. we are like nike. we are just doing it. not talking about t. not debating or having conversation. we are investing nenldzing transhomelessness. investing in aids planning and investing in doing all the work necessary to support, uplift and advance this community. people are talk bug not only we v. 12 million dollars to build a new lbgtq+ museum, supervisor mandelman, supervisor scott wiener pitch in the 5.5 million dollars to make the dream a reality. [applause]. when someone says, something about san francisco you ask them.
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what are they doing to mo promote and change the world for the lbgtq+ communities like san francisco. there is no comparison. this month. during pride month this it is a celebration. yes , there are problems and challenges. yes there are always things that we need to fight for. but it is time after a global pandemic. after all the issues we have been facing. it is time to start to feel good again temperature time to celebrate hour we have come. time to celebrate the work and investment and everything this we are doing in san francisco differently than we did before. it does not mean we don't fight tomorrow. but today we celebrate. we have joy, love in hearts. we have preeshz, the next generation, they are watching san francisco. they know this is the accomplice to come to get help, hope and spchlt that's what pride
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represents for everyone around world. as we are out there in the parade, upon events, brunches and the other things and of course, looking fabulous in the process, let us remember what and be grateful for the opportunity to be a part of what san francisco represents because we are very fortunate to do all the great work we are doing here and to put and shine a spotlight on what we are doing so others know what is possible and helps to fight against the bigotry and hate and the things that try to take us down. we are san francisco. we are like nike, we just do it. thank you. with that i want to introduce to say a few words lieutenant governor. [applause]. thank you, madam mayor. i like to start by recognizing the world's first drag laureate,
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darcy, congratulations! [applause] thank you for your leadership and your absolutely beautiful words. i think we can all agree there is no more no greater fabulous leader for the mayor for the city of san francisco than our mayor, london breed. thank you. madam mayor for your fabulousness and leadership every single day. so, i think some of you know i made san francisco my home for more than 20 years. i represent the entire state of california. and across our state this month there will be parades. celebrations, there will be incredible out pourings of culture and leadership uplifting the lbgtq+ community of the state of california. but i think we can agree that there is no place in the state no place in the country. no place in the world that did
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it earlier or does it better in celebrating pride month. than san francisco, california. and so, as we are out there celebrating and marching together. let us not forget what we know which is every generation must fight the fight again special we know in the country there are elements to our trying to roll back the rights of californians we will fight back and keep our rights for you our people in the state. i would like to recognize scott wiener in sacramento. incredible and every level. but most importantly, in leading the fight to put on the ballot again once and for all the changing of the california
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constitution to enshrine the right to marry who you want. and that is coming. [applause] because of senator wiener. i'm honored to be a cosponsor of that legislation we will get it done. more than anything else, which humility and pride and honest or myself to stands under this dome with all of you as we begin pride month t. is a tremendous honor to be part of this community which will always go forward and always lead in the state and in the world. happy pride; everyone. >> and with that the fabulous senator scott wiener. [applause]. >> thank you. thank you, lieutenant governor. so, you know i think pride feels a bit different this year. you know for a very long time, pride has become increaseingly a
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celebration, which is great. celebrate, parties and festive parades. everyone wanted to be a part. this. more corporations getting involved. everyone wanted to be a part of pride that is great. the last few years we understand that we have to get back to pride roots. which is to fight for our upon community's survival. that's what pride is about. [applause]. and when we look that is happening now, we are like, target removing a lot of the pride paraphernalia or the back of the store because of bullying from right wing extremists or bush pulling an add february including a transwoman. we see corporations who have been alis to us when the pressure goes on, they fold like
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a cheap tent. we need to say that participating in provide is not being in a parade or having a party or putting on the rain bows it is being an alli to our community not when it is easy but when it is hard. . when it is hard. [applause]. and even when it is dangerous. you know what? it is dangerous for us 365 days a year when you look at what is happening to our people, our lbgtq+ youth around the counts real. you are pushed to suicide. who are attacked. being told they can't go to the bathroom or play sports. you look at the two young transwomen who with drew from the state track and field championship because that had been so harassed imagine that
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out of the 1400 girls participating in the state track and field championships 2 were trans, that was 2, too many to the haters and the women got bullied out of competing that is happen happening in the country but in the state of california. and means we need to renew our commitment and get back to the roots of pride we are fighting for our community's survival and fighting to make sure we thrive. they want us to go away but we are not going anywhere. we are here to stay and our kids are here to stay. [applause] so on -- on monday, we are going to have fun in sacramento. that's our lbgtq+ caucus we have our pride celebration in the capital and each get to pick each member of the caucus picks an honoree. i nominated sister roma. and -- [applause] you may have
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seen that caused controversy. there are some folks in the catholic church special republican colleagues not happy about honoring a sister of perpetual indulgence but it is going to happen. we will emsends our san francisco spirit up to the capitol and proclaim to the world what are this city is about which is love and acceptance. happy pride, everyone. >> now to say a few words the president of the board for sf pride. come on up. thank you. and greetings mayor, breed. laureate and guests. i'm nguyen fam, he and his pronouns and honored address you as president of san francisco
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pride. of the city's largest event upon sf pride is regarded as one of the world's largest and most iconic annual celebrations of lbgtq+ culture and heritage. what might be lesser known is that our small team of 12 volunteer board members and 5 full time paid staff works year round to ensurety success of this parade and celebration every june in the greatest city in the world. [applause] we are proudly also the few remaining pride events in the world kept absolutely free and open to the partial ensuring all who wish to share in love of sf pride can do so free of charge and you can imagine how expensive it is to
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put on the largest free events. donations are totally welcome. and we than our market street and our festival at civic center serve as beakons of hope to those that see them the hope is important and necessary especially in the context of the attempts to oppress and erase our community. these are vicious. authoring bills that target our art forms, books, history and our health care. as san franciscans we ever fortunate to live, work and play in a city that largely protects and loudly celebrates our community. yet we are not a city without discord. it is not uncommon for some in our queer xunt community to be at odds with civic leaders with
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decisions we might disagree example with banko brown may he rest in power what we can unify around our debates must empower our movement to liberate queer people here and every where. so today, sf pride invites you to join us as co-conspirators toward this positive liberating change. provide love to one another and ourselves and alis. because our love for ourselves and for each other is our resistance. our resistance is our liberation. and our liberation is long over due. [applause]. >> it has been an honor to address you today. thank you and happy pride month! [applause].
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and it is now my pleasure to introduce tout first person i hired at sf pride my redheaded renegade, sf pride's executive director, suzanne ford. [applause]. . thank you, nguyen. mayor, lieutenant governor, supervisors, department heads to employees and guests; and first i like to say i see you my transsiblings. and i want to acknowledge my privilege as a white transwoman to stands up here and i'm standing here because of people like ms. major, jell neta and billie cooper. thank you. [applause] and everyone here knows and foals that this pride is more important than ever. you heard it from everyone up
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here. our theme this year is looking back and moving forward. and make no make that moving forward will be quite difficult. we are facing things we have not faced in 20-30 years especially the transcommunity. we are under attack, our community, city and our way of living are under attack. it is especially painful for me to see this persecution aimed at trans-children, families and adults all over red states and here in other parts of california that are not liberal cities. i was one of those trans-kids in the 70s. grew up in kentucky. i did not disclose my identity because i was afraid. there are millions of those people now in red states looking
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at us with fear. they wonder is san francisco the place you can come and be who you are. i'm here to say we are that city. so upon given circumstances, san francisco pride invites you to join us on pride weekend. help us draw a visible line, a line in the sand that says you are either for human rights or everyone. or for fear, hate and bigotry. there is no middle of the road. there is no moderate position on human rights. [applause]. if you march down market street with us this year, you are telling the world that here in san francisco you can be your whole self. you can love who you love in the most fabulous of ways.
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really everyone, we need all of you, i need money, mayor i'm looking for cash. so this i'm going to i have the honor introducing a supervisor to you and i can tell you he has been most gracious with a new executive director has been in his office many times looking for cash. so, come out supervisor mandelman. [applause]. i will come out any day. >> you know i have a baptist same sentiment the mayor had. you get to an event like this and look out in the crowd and there is too many amazing people out there. here, there. and executive directors nonprofits doing amazing work. queer city staff and department heads we are proud of and thank you, madam mayor for your queer appointments. tom horn, thank you again for
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doing this yearly for us. we're grateful. and yea, drag is fun. and fabulous and amazingly important in this year. and darcy, i'm so excited follow your drag laureate seat. there are you know our senator who -- like with a smile and grace deals at a level of hate directed against him. sometimes scare and he violent and threats. doing the great work in sacramento. and dealing with the whackdoodles terrified of sister roma. you terrified of darcy. if you were terrified you should be they will overwhelm your hate. they will blow it out of the water. they are going to win, they will lead us to a better day and that is why it is so wonderful that our mayor decided we'll have a
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drag laureate and the last thing i will do, which i try to do every year at this thing is say nice things about the mayor at them event. i do. i do. because this is a mayor who has been committed to our queer community from before she was the mayor. but as mayor, consistently. she released her budget when you look at the budget you see new investments, yes in queer culture and arts and in our vulnerable populations in elders, upon had beeneds of new units for queerelderly folks. and we will get that building one of these years we hope. money that is property bout and thank you, mayor, for doing that. and invest nothing so many other services for vulnerable queer folks and did it again this year. we talked about the hate that has been directed at our state
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senator. hate directed at kids, toochlt and other queer organizations. and laura from lyric thank you for the work you do for our kids. [applause] there are bomb threats manage to queer organizations and the mayor put in the budget in addition to ending transhomelessness and invest nothing queer eldand vulnerable queer populations she put in money to keep the organizations safer and deal with public safety needs. thank you and happy pride, everybody. [applause]. >> thank you. supervisor, mandelman i appreciate that and i said you went through the budget that fast? i also want to acknowledge that supervisor walton and supervisor ronen were here earlier for the flag raising and had to leave and at this time i want to ask supervisor dorsey to say a few words.
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[applause]. thank you, mayor. thanks, everybody. you know it is really important that pride theme be looking back and moving forward. i'm reminded it was 21 years ago i worked in the city attorney's office one of the 2 queer executive staff members along with then assistant city attorney terry stewart now a justice of the appellate court. first case we had in 2003, we won final case that was challenging. our domestic partnership equal benefit's ordinance. we could not have known a year later then mayor newsome will issue major licenses to same sex couples and we did not know it would lead to a legal battle strike brown major law in california and could not have known later that would be over
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turned by prop b. we could not have known the legal battle from that would 4 years after that strike down prop b. and 2 years after that achiefed major equality across the nation. [applause]. here is when we do know. when leadership happens on the cause of lbgtq+ equality and protecting our communities and advancing important things like a drag laureate and ending transhomelessnessch what we know is that leadership will always come from the city and county of san francisco. we can be proud of that and happy pride, everybody it is great and honor to be here. [applause] >> thank you. and i want to at this time acknowledge patrick carbon and he work that he is doing with the pink triangle. [applause] the celebration is on
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the 17th of june at what time? 11 o'clock, darcy du have something else? >> 11 o'clock. hopefully you will join with the pride brunch and so many other great events and activities. i want to just acknowledge we have an amazing host committee and protocol office and new chief of protocol mayorium and her team more an and listen -- along with support from tom horn, they are the ones who help to put this celebration together. i want to thank our council generals from mexico and peru for joining us today. and wonderful partners. [applause] and norway. japan. norway. we have -- a bunch of our counsel generals joining us will take a celebration like this and share this with places where they come from throughout the
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country and the world. and i'm looking forward to as i said celebrating pride uplifting the community. we have our state and local leaders. department heads. commissioners. and our community advocates, ambassadors. if you are not here i don't know where you are. but the fact is i said throughout the challenge senator wiener talked about, there has to be celebration, too and a moment to take a lot of prior in everything that so many of you have fought for in some case like donna ford generations. we are glad to have leaders in the communities here. and we are glad to officially now as we raise the flag as we celebrate to officially declare it lbgtq+ pride mont in the city of san francisco! [applause]. >> and before we close out this
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wonderful ceremony and we have champagne and cookies. i don't know if you notice the flag with the decorations when you walk in. that was our art's commissioner ricardo. who is fabulous. and he wanted do something special. we'll open up to international room for all of you to enjoy one another's company and take a moment to appreciate that. and before i move on i want to ask because she did an amazing job cohosting equity california event. ask our controller cohen to step and up say a few words. [applause] >> good afternoon, everyone. i commends you for sitting through so many speeches. my remarks will be brief. i say raise a glass, celebrate and remember those who showed us we stand on and happy pride.
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[applause]. all right, san francisco! let's turn this city out! thank you all so much for being here! [applause] >> i'm alice king this is my husband shawn kim and we other ordinance of joe's ice cream in san francisco. joe's ice cream in rich mondistrict since 1959 and we are proud to be registered a san francisco legacy business since
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2017. and we offer more than 50 flavors of homemade ice cream. and delicious home style burgers, sandwiches, hot dog, salad and more. we have a lot of different ice cream flavors both classic, long forgotten but classic and asian flavor inspired flavor like 3 red bean and black and now we also brought the korean i'm from korea. korean coffee krooem. we mix our traditional and trendy flavors all together. shawn and i are the first generation of the immigrants here in san francisco. so as immigrants, we have a special connection to this diverse community, san francisco richmond district. so we made this place our home.
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that is where we are trying to build our business as a place where everybody can feel welcome like we felt when we first came here what really makes fisher or joe's ice cream we have been growing together with our community. so we support our local schools throughout the fundraiser. we provide job opportunity for high school, i hire them every year. built a beautiful parklet outside funded by donations from over 200 neighbors and friends and i think this really shows how joe's ice cream and our community like lives together. so -- you see our mission is to serve as a fun community hub in san francisco and richmond district. so, i hope that we can stay this
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way for many years. >> [roll call] >> the san francisco port commission acknowledges we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the
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ancestors and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. item 2, approval of minutes for may 9, 2023 port commission meeting. >> so move. >> second. >> we have a motion and a second. all in favor? >> aye. >> the motion passes unanimously. the minutes of the may 9, 2023 meeting are now adopted. >> item 3 is pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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>> item 4 is announcements. please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones and similar sound producing electronic devices are prohibited at the meeting. a member of the public has up to 3 minutes to make comment. public comment must be respect in the current agenda item. the commission will take in-person and remote public comment beginning with those in person. for remote public comment, dial 1-415-655-0001. enter access code, 25935940240, pound, pound, then dial star 3 to raise your hand to comment. if you are watching the meeting on sfgovtv
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there is a short delay. please dial when the item is announced. mute your device and listen to the meeting from the telephone with no delay. item 5 is public comment on items not listed on the agenda. >> thank you. we will now take public comment on items not listed on the agenda and i have speaker cards. evan mclaughlin. >> good afternoon. my name is evan with (indiscernible) here today we wanted to provide the commissioners with an update on the ongoing negotiations between the boatman union and alcatraz cruises and ask port commission for continued support as we try to get a fair contract here. we had significant issues with delays from the company over the past few months. i believe
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the last time we were here, we informed the commission that we had a nearly 2 month gap between when the employer told us they were able to sit down and meet for negotiations. thateneded up being a gap of 52 days between negotiations. a slight improvement since then, which is the employer now agreed to sit down for two days for negotiations per month. this is a really big issue for us, because we are in touch with workers every day talking about their issues and are hear the same things. they are dealing (indiscernible) they have schedules that don't allow them (indiscernible) we have some folks who are making as little as $19.50 a hour, in san francisco that is not livable and we still have attempts to exclude some of the workers including the captains from being covered by the union. people are
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upset about this, and the more that we get into the summer season, the more we have frustrations and the more we have people saying, hey we got to take action and do something here and it is really difficult to tell people like hey, we don't want disruptions or anything to happen. it is hard to tell them that when we are only receiving a couple days of negotiations per month. very difficult to get what we need to do done. so, again, we are here to give you folks a update. we got a couple folks from alcatraz cruises to speak what has been going on and again, wanted to ask for the port commissioners continued support. we all have the same interest here. we just want to get a fair contract. we want to help san francisco continue along the pandemic recovery, and the only thing we are asking for alcatraz cruises, we
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are not trying to make maritime standard. the only thing we are trying to do and workers asked for assistance is helping them get to the standard already set for the other very successful maritime companies on the bay. that is blue and gold, blue and gate ferry, (indiscernible) all the folks operate under the standard that is appropriate and very successful and again we ask for your continued support and thank you for your time today. >> thank you. jack calvin. >> good afternoon commissioners. my name is jack calvin, a deck hand at alcatraz city cruises and been working there a little over a year. as evan touched on, we have been in this fight to
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organize the workplace for better part of two years at this point. since we won our election and our union was certified in september, october, the company has not been meeting-not negotiating with us in good faith like evan said. 52 days between negotiating sessions is not a realistic pace to come to agreement on a contract. something specifically i wanted to touch on was the refusal by the company to recognize captain and maintenance supervisors as part of the bargaining unit. when we filed for election, the captains and maintenance supervisors ballots were challenged and we were instructed by the national labor relation board to sit down and negotiate whether they would be included in the bargaining unit. so far the
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company has not budged one inch and refuse to talk about it, they say no and in the opinion of the union that is not negotiating in good faith whether they should be included. i work with the captains every day on the job. the company claims they are members of our management team, but have no actual managerial duties. they don't make our schedules, they can't hire or fire us, they don't have discipline power jz when i work with them on deck, they are my coworkers. they are not by boss. i listen to their instructions and follow their direction, but they are not our managers. our captains were the first ones to reach out to the boatman's union for help in organizing our union and they deserve to be recognized as part of the union. thank you for your time. >> thank you. parker-i can't read the last name.
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>> hello everyone. thank you for your time today. i appreciate you allowing me to speak. my name is parker. i work in the maritime operations for alcatraz cruises as a deck hand, been there a couple months now so still relatively new but i wanted to use the time today to share my experience and i hope in doing that my sharing of my experience will help others. so, i took this job a couple muckts ago mainly trying to save money it to go back to college and always enjoyed working on the water, build sea time and get my captain's license and was experiencing a lot of financial distress before taking the job so when the opportunity came up i was thrilled. i thought my job would take a huge positive trajectory and things would recover for me. due to some of
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the practices i haven't had that be my experience. the main issue for me is scheduling. that is something other members have spoken about at length and want to reiterate that can have real impacts on peoples lives. when i was hired i have another job. i work for one of the largest employers in the state of california. not going to name who they are now, but i have another job on the weekday. when i was hired i made it clear i had job responsibilities during the weekday and expected to be given a reasonable amount of head up. they never objected that however it hasn't happened. the schedules knh out often 24-48 hours. i had to disrupt operations by the other employer not able to show up to their shift. the company expects us to have
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24/7 availability. doesn't mean we have to work every hour during the 24/7 period but have to be available for shifts. at the same time that demand is hefty, yet we are not given very respectful scheduling in my opinion. i don't think there is degree of consistency or predictability. you can't have a work/life balance when you don't know when your work will be. it takes away the rest of your life. to touch on my personal experience, i recently had my hours cut from consistantsly over 30 a week to nothing, and there was no communication why that was. it was a big impact on me. i first thought i had done something wrong and would be terminated but that was not the case. i reached out later when financial situations got very tight and i asked if i had been laid off or furloughed, not given a answer about that. eventually i was told my hours reduced to nothing is
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because i did want have 24/7 availability. that wasn't something established when i was hired and yet the reason my financial wellbeing was consistently brought down. it has been a big challenge for me. i have to now most likely leave the area. i really wanted this to work and i love the san francisco bay, i love living here and love my time working at alcatraz cruises but without a regular schedule and hours reduced i can't afford to live here. >> thank you very much. appreciate your comments. is there any other public comment regarding items not listed on the agenda? seeing none, corey, do we have any callers on the line? >> at this time, there is no one on the phone wishing to make any public comment. >> thank you. public comment is closed. jenica, next item,
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please. >> item 6a is executive director's report. for callers who wish to comment please dial star 3 to raise your hand to comment. thank you. >> good afternoon president, members of the commission, members of staff and public. i'm elaine forbes, the port executive director. i like to start with economic recovery. first, i have good news to share about our financial footing. we embarked on a economic recovery initiative as you know and it is part of that i'm sharing the most updated information i have about how we are doing, and i have some good news. we are not in the woods, we are rebounding faster then we thought on the revenues. we have reached pre-pandemic revenues in key business signs and very excited to report that. i think we have some serious tail winds at the waterfront when
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includes [difficulty hearing speaker] that we are providing a clean and safe experience. it really appears our waterfront is a big draw and will continue to be see so very excited about the success. with that, i like toert induce our economic recovery manager megan wallace. she will give the port commission a overview how she developed the plan and next steps. >> thank you director forbes. good afternoon commissioners. since my last update to you in december, i have been working with port leadership, staff and business partners to develop and refine the port's economic recovery and growth plan and this is a implementation plan for our economic goals in the strategic plan. so, this afternoon i will share a update on how the plan has been developed as well as details in the plan along with how we are going to allocate resources to
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get our work done. so, before i get too far, i want to be clear that the economic recovery and growth goals are actually one pillar of our work as the port. really director forbes, port leadership and as a organization we do feel strongly that we will only be successful in the stabilization of the port's financial future if we do integrator our work with the equity goal and resilience goal. this report that i'm giving you today, keep in mind that it has been developed, really thinking about this as being one of three main pillars in our work. first thinking about
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developing a execution plan for economic recovery and growth goals, i want to highlight a general mission statement that recognizing there is a great body of work that is already been accomplished at the port, including creating a strategic plan. i wanted to use existing documents to develop and implement the initiatives that both address the immediate economic needs of our waterfront, and look to the long-term financial stability and sustainability of the port. in the planning, there always needs to be stages in work. really trying to focus efforts and started with developing and refining the growth plan, so looking at our economic goals and making sure that pulling in other planning documents and other information to really develop economic recovery actions. and then of course thinking how we are going to support that work. allocation
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of resources. so, as i'll show in a moment, that has been the body of work that has been underway over the last several months, but the ongoing execution and iteration is in the forecast as well as building in monitoring and reporting, making sure we are accountability internally to ourselves as staff to you as the commission and well as the public and partners. so, when it comes to being developing a plan, i did not go it alone. this has been integrated work with partners in each of the divisions. i think everybody is represented here. i do want to highlight there is strong leadership with the director. thank you director forbes for your guidance on this work, but also within throughout the ranks of the port, gathering ideas, pulling together priorities and understanding where we might pull levers to
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really make some progress as a organization. then also looking internally talking with fisherman's wharf cbd we have been partnering with recently but also thinking about tourism trends, talking with sf travel, really trying to have boots on the ground talking to people outside the port to understand the economic environment around us and what tools they might recommend we utilize. i mentioned not wanting to start from scratch. i listed some guiding documents here. the strategic plan is document number one, but definitely looking at proposals that staff proposed last summer with ideas for economic recovery initiatives, the capital imuvprovement and waterfront plan looking at existing resources to make a complete picture and then the funding
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sources. as you'll see in future slides, there are a variety of sources that are being taken into account when it comes to moving our strategic goals forward. so, in terms of the timeline, i mentioned develop and refine in the yellow bar you see this started in november when i first came on-board with the port. i do see it continuing into august, so really building from internal work and collaboration for developing initiatives, having refining the initiatives land ing on some wonderful ideas to move forward. of course we are here today for our port commission update, but this summer we'll meet with advisory committees and really trying to inform people the creative feedback loop for input as well. and the developing refining is in parallel with the allocation of resources and important step in all this is actually
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sharing an expenditure plan for $10 million of economic recovery funding that was included in the fiscal year 2021-22 budget currently on board reserve. so, i mentioned earlier, the economic recovery growth plan is implementation plan for our strategic plan goals. again, recovery goal focused on the near term activation of the waterfront really thinking about that quick recovery from the pandemic to the economic growth of the port really thinking about that long-term financial future we have always been thinking about pre-pandemic, recognizing expenditures grow at a faster pace over time then the revenues. and so what are we doing about recovering and growing is where our objectives come in. i like-there are a
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lot of objectives associated with recovery and growth goals, so i think it is helpful to think of them in three buckets of administrative , what are we internally doing to improve operations, activation and business development, a lot of this is that near term recovery work as well as growing maritime and real estate portfolios and public private partnerships. leveraging other people's money business partners to create new neighborhoods and revitalize our historic piers. i'll try to go through these quickly. i gave a background how we developed a plan and share details within the plan. as i mentioned i'll follow three categories. under the administrative category, recovery we are looking at three main areas,
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lease administration, enterprise economic recovery and management of resources and projects. and under lease administration, this isn't news for you all. staff has come to you with proposals for ways to either bring current tenants into complinesh compliance to try to reach settlement options to move to the up and running and doing well as well as incentive categories, so thinking using the tenant improvement fund to improve facilities and attract new tenants. this is really a internal administrative tool that we are using. for enterprise economic recovery, we are looking at attracting external funds, so not only relying on federal stimulus dollars but going after additional grants. we have a grant application out for
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(indiscernible) we see others in the pipeline so trying to make sure we are organized around effectively going after those funds. technology isn't one of those things that you necessarily think about for recovery, but how the systems operate translate into how effective staff is in our day to day jobs. and then operating efficiencies and staffing is other things we are exploring, trying to make it easier both to work for and with the port. and then resource and project management. wanting to track hiring positions to manage this work such as myself, such as the new business generation manager and also internal employee facing positions such as a new employee ombudsman. these are things that will help us drive this work forward and support staff as we are recovering.
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reporting, thinking about accountability. what is sequencing of me coming to you and giving updates, but also meeting with staff. director forbes has been adamant she wants internal stakeholder engagement to make sure we have strong feedback loops because our staff knows so much and they provide so much critical feedback and we want to carry that forward, not just for this last 6 months, but moving forward in this process. activation and business development, i think is maybe the one everybody thinksble about with economic recovery, particularly tenant recovery and activation. these are things we have been talking a lot about in terms of restaurant and retail pop ups. that is going on downtown and we want to do some of that along the port property. parks and open space, how we make it easier to fiend your way once you are down here. waterfront walks, thinking creating more of a attraction along with art and beautification to make people think of this as a destination and of
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course the fisherman's wharf grant working on pop ups, safety, other cleaning. and for the property portfolio, this is where we actually looking at the tenant improvement funding as critical. we are looking at the vacant spaces and trying to identify the best ways to invest federal stimulus dollars to prepare those facilities to be ready for new tenants. and for maritime, there are 4 major categories. commercial fishing and-i want to highlight some of these things, because the color coding plays a role here. everything in yellow is representing investments that we are proposing with the $10 million economic recovery fund. if it is in blue, that is representing federal stimulus or other grant
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dollars. green is more a public private partnership and then if it is in black that actually is a operating expense that we are already hearing. so, as you can see here, particularly for activation and business development, there is a real combination of these different funding sources that together can move all these strategies forward. and then finally, public private partnerships. i felt a little bit uncertain about this slide because that is a small table representing some very very large important projects for the port, so just really-but don't want to leave it unshared in terms of the importance of moving these long-term improvements both to our historic facilities and creating new neighborhoods along the port that is really going to frame the future of the port and our financial
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position anticipating long-term revenue as well as future of the city. just creating new housing, preparing for sea level rise and other economic benefits. so, i wanted to highlight some of the key outcomes i have been describing. the objectives and what are we doing? in terms of what do we want to get out of it? what are those intended outcomes? really just want to highlight how each of the categories fit in. administrative, thinking we want to improve the ports balance sheet when it comes to leases, attracting and retaining tenants. that is where the lease work really comes to play. those internal operating efficiencies, i talked about wanting to make it easier to work for and with the port. really thinking how can we make it a wonderful place to work by making it easier to do our jobs with good technology systems for example. and then of course, with activation and business development, we just
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know that by generating activity on the waterfront building our maritime complex in the southern waterfront, including crews and thinking about shore side power and off-shore wind, these are critical components to that growth. the public private partnerships, building those resilient communities and protecting our shore facilities. before i wrap up, i want to make sure i'm very clear about the allocation of resources from the $10 million of economic recovery funds. these funds were budgeted in fiscal year 2021-22, but the board of supervisors put them on reserve because we didn't have a detailed expenditure plan for those funds. i had the benefit of being able to develop that expenditure plan and every item listed here
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represents components of our strategic goals and objectives that have not yet been funded or don't have a clear funding source coming its way. so, things that may not be exciting or argue need funding like 811 utility project, but we better do it. they will help reduce the risk for the port, make it easier for staff to do their jobs so they can shift and focus on other priortize. looking at maritime, a ice machine, improved facilities that make fishers want to stay in san francisco rather then going to other ports. these are things that may have not had clear return on investment but actually do have a positive economic benefit to the port by making it easier to work with us, making it including our fishers, all the way from internal staff to fishers in
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our ports. so, main take away. we have economic recovery growth plan. implementation plan. working to understand where there are pitfalls and delivering various actions, but also working to make sure that funds are in place to drive our work forward. we also have expenditure plan for this $10 million economic recovery funds. i think if there are major take aways of what we are trying to deliver, we are working to improve internal processes. make it easier to for and with with the port. we are doing a lot of active work in fisherman's wharf. trying to improve the visitor experience. bring visitors back. what we examine, that is the biggest hole in the revenue streams and working to leverage external funding to
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drive big initiatives particularly in our maritime work in the southern waterfront and i think that's our near term focus on external funding, but also thinking about that long-term forecast, recognizing we need to improve our operating revenues and having them grow steadily over time so we don't get caught having a budget short fall. thank you for this time giving you a update. we are looking to the board of supervisors in september and with that, i'm going to hand it back over to director forbes. >> thank you megan. i really appreciate that update and it is very rewarding for us to bring our plan together and make it actionable and see how to allocate resources as we track the various initiativesism several work efforts we have known needed to be done and it is finding the resources and time to do them.
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it gives us more prioritization and push on the key e initiatives to help stabilize the balance sheet and good financial future. also the pivots we need to make to the covid environment are nestled how to retain the facilities whether through pop ups or releases or both. there is a lot of on the ground work here that will happen as we see what our longer term covid impacts are to the enterprise and how best to respond so thank you so much megan for the presentation and we are glad to have a leader organizing this work across divisions. now i will turn to equity. this last weekday the port hit a very important milestone in our equity work. this was the third juneteenth on the waterfront and this was better then ever. the event featured black owned businesses from the neighborhood and drew big crowds from residents around the city. businesses
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wereled sold out and oxtails and (indiscernible) were sold out early. mayor breed and commissioner gilman joined thousands of people for the event. (indiscernible) hudson property, ferry building and funding through the dream keeper initiative. it was a wonderful gathering. our mayor was there nearly four hours. she interacted with and bought from nearly every vendor and toured the ferry building. you may have read the amazing press that came before the event. we are featured in several outlets and want to thank the communication team for the great work getting us out there and getting the event known to the public. as always, our team made sure the waterfront sparkled. i thank the maintenance division and all the port staff who tabled the events. thank you. finally, to you president brandon for your very early leadership on the concept and the
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direction for us to get it done,b which we did and very pleased how it is going. it was a very proud day for the port and one more person to thank, tony (indiscernible) had exceptional leadership and did a lot of work, administrative work with permitting and contracting so thank you tony. now to our resilience new s. more exciting report on the resilience efforts. as you know, we have been working very closely with the army corp of engineers and sister agencies with infrastructure impacted by the need for flood protection here at the waterfront. in february and again early june members of the army corp of engineers joined our waterfront team in person for a week of in depth conversation and analysis and in april the team hosted city champions, which was represented from the partner city agencies and they have been collaborating very closely with us and army corp. these sessions are important. this
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ongoing collaboration is critical for a successful plan and project for flood protection and seismic protection. i'm pleased everyone is doing the work in person because it is very complex and appreciate the army corp of engineers coming to san francisco. we are hoping to have reach a plan for public review by the end of the year. as you know, we are start ing to see results from the analysis as it relates to federal interest and we are looking how this will impact our draft adaptation strategies. we use the results as well as public feedback we received to help build the plan and will be sharing the results with you early this summer. it is a very big time for the development from all the analysis to a plan. we look forward to more. key projects i turn to the southern waterfront with update on pier 94, trailer sites. we have a mou with the human services agency for operation for temporary shelter at the
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industrial working area of the port at pier 94. it expired february 28, 2023 with mayor breed lifting of the emergency declaration, the department of homelessness and supportive housing continued to use the site, however we don't have active agreement for the use of the site so i will be entering into a month to month mou with hsh for the continued use of the site as they continue to wind down and prepare their demobilization plan. we are very proud to have been a real big part of the effort to house unsheltered people during the pandemic and offer full support as hsh in the wind down to get people housed and into a healthier and safer environment. now i like to give a update on the ship yard repurposing. in october 2020 the maritime staff gave a informational preezentation on the ship yard and how to reposition the ship yard after we lost ship repair.
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part thof discussion is the many many vast inventory of abandsen ship repair including two dry docks and late 2022, the port staff began efforts to prepare a competitive solicitation for disposal of dry dock 2 and dry dock (indiscernible) happy to say as of june 6 the offer for purchase for the two efforts have gone live. the port is offering for sale to the public, minimum bid price is $2.5 million and it requires the bidders to remove both dry docks. the details of the rfo are on the website and hope to report a successful bid and agreement. i want to say thank you to the maritime division, the city attorney office and office of contract administration for this good work. and commissioners, consistent with the write off policy adopted pursuant to 2211, port staff is giving a report summarizing one
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recommended write off on may 8 to asn stone in the amount of $57.674. you have 30 days from this day to review if you have concerns let me know and we'll schedule a hearing. now, i like to thank you commissioners as always for your dedication to our waterfront and i would like you to help me in honoring three individuals who have made a major stamp. first, someone not here today just to let you in advance, our port staff sustainability leader cara balk will be retiring the end of june. she had a conflict today and wanted a low key exit. been with us since 1995 so 27 years. served in many positions, project manager, regulatory specialist manager, assistant deputy director of planning and environment. the reason for (indiscernible) park, including advancing equity and resiliency
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through partnership with community, regional cbo, city and regional agencies. she also managed the site investigation and preparation of pier 70 action plan and risk management plan funded through a federal grant. without this work we would not have the pier 70 historic core or (indiscernible) park or future waterfront site. cara is also a critical member to the waterfront land use plan. she lead all the sustainability work and drafting of policies. she has been a tremendous person to the port. she explains very complex science issues in a way we can all understand and will miss her expertise, positivity, endless hard work and can good person hood and wish her a good next part of her life and excellent retirement. now we have two dedicated cac patners shat will be stepping down from their position. following in the decades of service, i like
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to honor marsha madden who served on the waterfront advisory committee from 2006 to today, nearly two decades as a architect with historic preservation expertise and she is on the line joining us now. she provided outstanding guidance to the port projects, including the cruise ship terminal, broadway hotel, (indiscernible) downtown ferry terminal expansion and many other projects. staff says the contributions are extremely insightful and recognize the importance of historic resources within the national register district and made certain projects respectful of the historic fabric. marsha, so grateful to your contribution. and (indiscernible) i believe is here today. who severed oon the central waterfront advidesry group since 2019. which was renamed and reconfigured to the southern advisory group that same year. served as representative for san
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francisco giant mission rock partners for most of the last decade actively participated in the meetings as the government relation officer for the giant and build relationships with staff, south beach and mission bay representatives and aligned share goals with operating ball games concerts and special events as a good neighbor. upon sac reorganization, actively engaged with members bringing former (indiscernible) together and brought new perspectives to the committee. he also worked closely with us on the transformation of sea wall 337 to the new neighborhood we see rising today. fortunately he'll continue to work with us in your new capacity with the san francisco giants and remain a valued stakeholder. for their service, honored to provide a parting gift. rosco is the only one accepting in person today. thank you, that concludes my report.
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>> thank you elaine. great report. we will now open up for public comment. is there any public comment? on any items discussed? dan? >> if i may commissioner-president brandon and members. i congratulate and are thank both marsha and rosco for service and want to make a few warks about marsha because i served and worked with her the entire time she has been on the committee. i so enjoyed working with marsha on the waterfront advisory committee, known as the wdac and all the insight she brought to so many projects, which director forbes mentioned a few of them and there is way too many to mention all together. for context, the committee process is similar to the commission. there is listening to the applicants presentation,
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listening to public comment and then the committee makes comments on those what they heard. when it was marsha's turn to speak, the room would go silent. people waited and listened to her every word. her knowledge of architecture, historic rehabilitation and urban design was extensive and respected. skill and explaining complex issues in a manner everyone could understand and appreciate was also amazing. and more often then not, she left everyone agreeing that yes, i will have a better project with this guidance. so, thank you marsha for guiding the port to be more attractive, more efficiently functioning and overall a better place. thank you thank you thank you. >> thank you dan. is there any other public comment? >> good afternoon commissioners. president
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brandon, david (indiscernible) deputy director planning and environment. i to be wanted to thank mausha and are rosco and carol who i will miss tremendously. i want to say a few words about rosco because i worked with him a long time. when we were reviewing his time i couldn't believe it had only been 4 years he served for probably long years for him, but i realize that he had been with us a lot longer. he participated prior to becoming a member of the mission rock and giant team coming to (indiscernible) and sea wag meetings and always enjoyed his partnership with us and input. elaine mentioned during the transition between bringing the sea wag and the swack together rosco played a key role bringing those two communities together. bringing a new perspective for them and helping that sac jell as a group so thank you very much rosco, we appreciate your dedication. thank
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you. >> thank you. any other public comment in the room? rosco-- >> good afternoon president brandon, commission, director forbes, board staff. thank you. the port is a very special place, and this type of recognition is one of the reasons why. it has been so much fun and a honor to work with you all and the community, but sea wag or (indiscernible) around giant work or mission rock. the community welcomed me in just like port staff as if i had been working on mission rock forever, and the community helped me get up to
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speed. the community shared with me what their concerns were, what they were excited about, and it is just been fantastic experience working with you all. i will miss it very much and i just really appreciate this recognition. it is completely unexpected, so thank you very much. >> thank you rosco. is there any other public comment in the room? seeing none, corey, do we have anyone on the phone? >> yes, actually we have one person on the line and i will open it up right now. line is open. >> good afternoon. my name is catherine moore and as a (indiscernible) severing with masha since 2005 i want to join those today
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(indiscernible) practice with purpose. [difficulty hearing speaker] calling on architects to be of public service, best describes what marsha has done for the waterfront. it isn't only marsha's professional accomplishment and depth of experience that guided thoughtful deliberations, but it is also her ability to stay open to different points of view and still find common ground. i want to thank marsha for those years. marsha, you touched me and are transpired many of us and your practice with purpose and thank you for being a friend and colleague. thank you. >> thank you. any other comments? >> at this time, there
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is nobody on the phone. >> thank you corey. public comment is closed. commissioner gilman. >> first of all, i want to thank rosco and marsha. i think many people actually work much harder and do much more tactical work then we as commissioners do so thank you for your service and dedication. megan i want to thank you for your economic development report and wanted to highlight and lift up one aspect you touched on. wayfaring and signage. we have so many events happening this month kicking off summer, whether it be the north beach festival taking place this weekday with 10s of thousands of people coming to north beach. how incredible
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next year if we have signage on the waterfront so the visitors can come to the waterfront and have that experience, or hatchy pride month which director forbes i know meant to mention and we is have the parade june 25 with hundreds of thousands of people coming to san francisco to uplift and celebrate our lgbtq plus brothers and sisters in our community. i would love to see activities along the wut er front. i know the ferry building is highlighting some, but ways for folks to enjoy our great city. i think as we think of economic recovery, we need to think how we get people to the waterfront and folks coming from crews or coming for the waterfront, how we get them into the historic neighborhoods of san francisco, whether dog patch, the castro or north beach. i want to highlight the importance of that. my only last comment, which isn't about the director's report, but i do think is really important is to once again at least
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for me as a commissioner reiterate my support of the inland boat union and the unionization efforts with alcatraz tours. i say this, because it was stated that the minimum wage laws above california state folks are making is $19.50 and want to highlight individuals making that wage make too little to move into the affordable housing that the giant produces the first project to ever have 60 percent affordable on their site, but they are considered extremely low income from a housing perspective for the state of california. those individuals would need a rental subsidy to afford a unit targeting working close folks at 60 percent of ami and i say that because wage compression is not a way to have a business model and having schedules where individuals
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can't juggle multiple jobs if they need to, devastate the economy so i want to express my disappointment in alcatraz cruises for not bargaining in good faith and hopefully can lift up the wages of those workers so they can say in san francisco. >> thank you. >> they think president brandon. first of all, thank you commissioner gilman. i want to associate myself with those comments. i appreciate those very much. thank you to carol marsha rosco for all the work. i wish i had known you better. fairly new here. next year juneteenth and have to plan better. it came so fast. (indiscernible) thank you for doing juneteenth. i is a few questions on the strategic plan. i guess the first is a comment. often when you see these things you say we are
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doing wondingful things so happy you listed strategic outcomes and do metric. (indiscernible) that would be great to do. you mentioned a tenant improvement fund and dont know what that is, can you talk about that? >> yes. the port allocated and i correct-8 million for the tenant improvement fund using federal stimulus dollars and the idea is the port will use the funds to improve facilities to ready them for future tenants, or we now actually have authority that went through the board of supervisors to be able to pgive tenants the funds so they can actually complete the improvements themselves. it is really a way to lower barriers trying to expedite the process of bringing in new tenants. >> $8 million, how much is left or how much spent? >> we received about
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just under $117 million of federal stimulus funds overall, and so in terms of a portion of the funds-they have been allocated out to capital projects supporting operating budget, so- >> (indiscernible) it is all in the bank. $8 million (indiscernible) >> i apologize, i was thinking about (indiscernible) >> (indiscernible) >> we have not utilized the funds. >> is the goal to start responding -spending in the next year or two? >> i can speak to that. for the team now we have two brokered rfp responses out two facilities and so staff will look what comes through and do a competitive process through the broker, and looking at which facilities we think are most primed for these stimulus dollars. as megan shared, we have a lot of facilities that are vacant or not
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operating. vacant within our control or soon to be in our control. some of them need a great deal of work so in the assessment period and staff will be coming with each transaction and opportunity with the partner to say, this now commission we recommend for these dollars and keep you posted as we go through it on the whole portfolio so you can continue to get a sense how best to target the funds. >> that's great. do we think a (indiscernible) will be spent on fisherman's wharf restaurant? >> i suspect so. >> thank you. >> thank you. commissioner lee. >> well, the report is very encouraging and megan, such a detailed thing and were orried with everybody leaving you have enough staff. interested in the tenant recovery
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and property portfolios and suggesting there is a lot of people that want to do maritime events to the public to bring in more revenue. what was not mentioned is parking. when we did our walk-through in the wharf i see there is spaces that are fenced off or not used, and possibly the other way of jen rating income is maybe having discount parking for electric vehicles. maybe families that come from outside the city that want to come in and park their cars instead of at pier 39 they can use our empty spaces and park their ev cars and that helps the environment and brings more traffic to the wharf and the waterfront, where ever we have space. i truly believe if it sits empty, nobody is making money and cost more money to maintain a empty space
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so very excited helping you where i can and the real estate part to see what we can do to fill spaces. when i looking at the documents last night i'm amazed at the amount of detail the port staff goes through that makes our job a lot easier and with all these people leaving, i think wow, who will replace them. i hope we get other talented people who love public service as we do to be back on port, because that is what we are here. good job. look forward to the future and also the tenant improvement is a great incentive for new operator s who can't afford the up front cost so that's great. thank you. >> thank you commissioner. i misspoke, the tenant improvement budget is $10 million. better. >> thank you elaine
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and megan thank you so much for your report. as usual, there is a lot going on on the waterfront and so happy to hear that in certain areas we are at-back at pre-pandemic levels as far as revenue and tourist and everyone visiting the waterfront and think that is absolutely phenomenal. i want to congratument everyone on the juneteenth festival or pop up here at the ferry building. i too have to do better scheduling because i was out of town this weekday and couldn't attend but so happy it was well attended and everybody sold out. i think that's great. really want to thank tony for all her work she put into that and the entire port team that worked on that. i am really going to miss carol. carol has been such a wonderful person to work with over these
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years. i think she may be the only person still here when i started. [laughter] carol was working on (indiscernible) park when i first joined the commission squl that was a big deal and she is just done so much for the port and especially the southern waterfront over the last 27 years, so really going to miss her and appreciate all she's done to contribute to our waterfront. really want to thank marsha and rosco for their participation on the cac. their input is so invaluable and really helps us to make decisions and really helps us with decisions being made for the port of san francisco, and we just really appreciate all the time and guidance that they have given our staff and the commission over the years. rosco, thank you in person, and marsha thank you so much. regarding economic recovery and growth plan, i think
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this is a great report and i am glad we have a plan. i just want to make sure that our plan is port wide, and when i look at our partners i don't feel that. i feel that our partners are focused more on the northern waterfront, and i would think that we would like to activate the entire waterfront, and spend resources doing that. we have (indiscernible) park, we should engage the ymca, we have mission rock, we should engage the giants. we have property all along the waterfront that needs to be activated, and paid attention to, because our economic recovery is based on our entire waterfront. we know that fisherman's wharf needs a lot of help and we know we are going to have to do a lot of investment in
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fisherman's wharf, but at the same time, as we are planning, i hope we are looking at the entire waterfront. but thank you so much. this is great. i real ea -really appreciate it. jenica- >> if we could bring rosco up, i have a very nice very heavy paper weight. we can present that with a photo with the commission.
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[applause] >> jenica, next item, please. >> item 7 is consent calendar. for callers who wish to comment on consent calendar, dale star 3 to raise your hand to comment. 78, request autheration to enter into memorandum of
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agreement for temporary agreement with office of community investment and infrastructure for mission bay park. beginning july 1, 2023 for term not to exceed 6 months. the port will be reimbursed up to $510.028 for cost associated with maintenance and operations from ocii using community facility district 5 proceeds. that is resolution 23-25. item 7b, request approval of port 10 year capital plan, 7c, request for approval to award a sole source grant to the fisherman's wharf association of san
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francisco, also known as the fisherman's wharf community benefits district, and waive port license fees and the prohibition on sugar-sweetened beverages. (resolution 23-27) item 7d, request approval of strategies to address food & beverage and retail vacancies including adopting new broker policy, adopting criteria for competitive leasing or licensing for new food and beverage and retail/attraction vacancies, and adopting participation rates and rent abatement terms for short-term activations of such sites while the competitive leasing process is underway. (resolutions 23-28 and 23-29) and item 7e, request for retroactive authorization to modify construction contract no. 2843, pier 70 shipyard grading and abatement, to extend the substantial completion date. (resolution 23-30) >> thank you. commissioners, can i have a motion? >> so move. >> second. >> we will now take public comment. is there any public comment in the room? seeing
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none, corey, is there anyone on the phone? >> at this time, there is no one on the phone wishing to make public comment. >> thank you corey. public comment is closed. do we have a motion and a second? all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? resolution 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 are adopted. jenica, next item, please. >> item 8a request approval to ishi request for proposals for underground utility location and marketing services. resolution 23-31. for caller who wish to comment on this item, please dial star 3 to raise your hand to comment. >> good afternoon commissioners. my name is paul (indiscernible) i'm a project manager in engineering division and happy to present today. i will be doing the presentation but joined by my colleague
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elizabeth alexander and head of engineering (indiscernible) who can help answer questions you have about this program. so, today we will be presenting to you the underground utility locating mapping program. the action you are asked to take today is to authorize staff to issue a rfp to on-board a consultant to support the program and we propose a initial contract of quarter million our for 4 years. this program aligns with goal outlined in the port strategic plan around productivity, equity and resiliency. some the port owns all sort of underground utilities through the 7 and a half mile
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waterfront we are legally under california state law obligated to locate and mark these utilities prior to construction activities. the way this works, when i a contractor knows they will excavate they call a regional non profit called, the underground service alert or usa north covers northern california and nevada. that non profit reaches out to utility operators within the vuscenity to let them know if their lines will be impacted. the operator is expected to parse the tickets and go and locate and mark any lines if in the vicinity so today asking for your support helping do that and that
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consultant would triage the tickets as they come in and locate and mark when necessary. we have broken the contract into several scope items. task one is basic project management of the contract. task two is consultant to develop what we call a program implementation plan to help us sort of identify all the steps needed to sort of get our program up and running. task three is running the program it is lf, the bulk of the contract and that is triaging the 311 north tickets and going and mapping when needed. task four is optional task we included if funding is left over in the budget where we can assign the consulant to go out and are map areas to get a better understanding where our existing utilities are to improve our internal
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asset management. so, in terms of-we are here today asking your permission to release the rfp and hope to have a consultant on-board in the fall. that concludes my presentation and want to thank all of you for listening today and joined by elizabeth to help answer any questions. we are asking for your support and releasing the rfp to on-board a consultant to get this program up and running. thank you. >> thank you paul. commissioners can i have a motion? >> so move. >> second. >> thank you. is there any public comment in the room? seeing none, corey, do we have anyone on the phone? >> at this time, there is no one on the phone wishing to make public comment. >> thank you. public
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comment is closed. commissioner harrington. >> thank you. thank you paul for that report. very comprehensive. couple questions for you. this isn't a new requirement, how is it done now? >> we have been sending engineers on case by case basis to help support these request as they trickle in. the hope is we can sort of institutionalize and formalize the program. i think it was a push to kind of early on pre-covid but covid derailed that so here today to get the program up and running. >> thank you. the other question is, this isn't a port issue, the puc, a variety of different parts of the city do a very very similar or identical things. is there a thought to try to consolidate this or work with those other agencies to make sure we get a city wide contract or something we get some kind of benefit of doing it that way? >> yes, actually we listened to this quite extensive. we like to partner with the puc and
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reached out to them and heard clearly from all three silos of the puc. each silo does its own mapping and locating and we heard clearly they were not interested partnering on the caw psty standpoint and from a liability standpoint cht there was concern relying on maps they didn't produce and this other complicateing factor as well, but we did research it. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. commissioner lee. >> i really have no questions. it is important that we map this out ourselves. what i hate is we do construction project jz they fix it and pave over it and another department comes in and digs up the space again which is kind of ridiculous, so i think this is a good thing to have, so i support this. >> thank you. commissioner gilman. >> thank you paul for the report. i support the item and have no questions.
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>> they -thank you paul. great presentations and commissioners, great questions. all in favor? any opposed? motion passes unanimously. >> item 9a is informational presentation update on the port's mobile vending program. callers who wish to comment on this item, please dial star 3 to raise your hand to comment. >> good afternoon commissioners. happy to be here today to give you a update on the port's mobile vending program and associated enforcement activities. so, the first several slides are a recap of how we got here over the past three plus years. at the end of 2019, the state legislature passed senate bill 946, which
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decriminalize street vending state wide and limited the ability of cities and counties to regulate street vending to those situations where they adopted a specific type of program that met the bill's requirements. that coincideed date wise with the onset of covid-19 pandemic early 2020 and those two factors really lead to a significant increase in mobile vending over the course of 2020. we saw high concentration of vendors in fisherman's wharf and embarcadero is a place everyone was trying to get outside so the vendors so that as a big opportunity. a number of concerns raised here are the concerns that we are still seeing raised on the list on the slide, but the additional challenge then was that the vendors were not following health and safety protocols relating to covid so we were worried on the public health effects as well. port staff advocated to try to
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get some enforcement tools and supervisor aaron peskin brought forward a mobile vending ordinance that allowed-that created a code upgrade that allowed port to institute a pilot mobile vending program. this is our ability to get under the auspice of sb96 and enforce permits and time place and manner of vending on port proper. the important thing of the ordinance is it created the ability for the commission and executive director to put together regs where on port property this can happen because we want to strike the balance state law set out. we want to have the entrepreneur opportunities but do it in a way that doesn't take away the opportunities for other people to enjoy the natural resource and recreational benefit of the waterfront. so, upon the adoption of that ordinance after that we brought to you a
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program structure, the port commission adopted its operational standards and delegated authority to the executive director to issue more detailed program regulations, which the executive director did and we instituted a program that set forth the ways to get a permit for vending on port property, establishing fines for administrative citations for people who don't follow the rules and put together the rule frz the time place and vendor by permit holders. a key tenant of the port program, we didn't want to assign vendors specific real estate on the waterfront. we wanted have more of opportunity for all vendors to enjoy different locations so no one vendor won the lottery and got the space in front of the high traffic area. we did that, we set out a series of locations sort of evenly spaced on the waterfront and ones very high demand we instituted a lottery process.
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those are in fisherman's wharf and close to the ferry building. the other locations on available on first come first serve basis and we thought that was a way to bring on a new sort of legal vending component to port property. in further support of that, the commission and the executive director allocated funds with add-back from supervisor peskin to retain the mission economic development agency forveneder and technical assistance to get the unpermitted vendors into the permitted program and sort of fulfill hopeful the activities or opportunities. what we saw important bringing is a lot of unpermitted vendors were mono lingual spanish speakers and was meta was a integral part. public workshops and significant component
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of vendors over 30 in the program from the outset. we increased to over 50 at this point. following the adoption of the port program, i think we saw a little of improvement on the sort of port waterfront in terms of unpermitted vending. our enforcement was somewhat episodic but there was a enough people and enough vendors interested in the program that it sort of lightened the challenge a bit. at the same time the city saw a lot ofveneding else where and there was a push by the board of supervisors to regulate city wide. in 2022 the board adopted a city wide vending ordinance that establish the department of public works as the program manager for the city. the board of supervisors wanted to centralize permit issuance but port staff advocated for and
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received provisions that still retained the right to set time place and manner regulations with the port commission and the executive director. we felt--as i described, public works moved towards a program that actually assigned locations and we wanted to make sure we have the ability for different vendors to experience different entrepreneurial opportunities at the waterfront at different times. public works instituted and begun implementing the vending program elsewhere, primarily the mission it has been seen-having most impact in terms of more vendors permitted. also have enforcement team that worked into action in the rest of the city. we are still working with them on issuing new permits for vendors on port property because the system they have that points to a specific location they have to do technical upgrades and they also want to do similar technical assistance to what meda did for our program getting our current
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permit holdernize to the city wide permit issuance rezyme to come on port property. sorry if that sounds like a maze. i want to describe that because public works is looking for resources to do that technical assistance and issue those permits in the new fiscal year starting next month. in the mean time we grandfathered permit holders because we didn't the permits to expire with no way to actually operate legally on port property. thank you for coming with me on that journey as i tried to explain that. our hope by the end of the year we will have a much more seemless interaction between our work and work of public works. on to enforcement. so, i think we learned quite a bit in the two years we have been able to enforce the port program. state law limits enforcement of these permit infractions to administrative citations. they decriminal ized it. a
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administrative citations are fines. state law doesn't give the authority to demand valid identification. when we want to issue a citation, the person would not give valid (indiscernible) we couldn't connect the infraction with the negative outcome that deter the action. so, ultimately we relized citations alone would not be the tool. another thing we learned is alcohol and cannabis sales andveneding on the sidewalk takes root among the other food and merchandise vending commented my commissioners in the past and we have seen as we worked on the waterfront and seen the activations happening and that is running directly counter to the clean safe vibrant waterfront we want to foster as the port recovers and as the city recovers. the challenge there is those are absolutely
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criminal activities and so there is a lot of coordination needed between port staff and law enforcement to get at those and i'll talk more how we will try to get at this. lastly, in terms of the locations it is very consistent to see a lot of vending on embarcadero and fisherman's wharf. pier 31 and 33 and giant games at oracle park. those are the hot spots. we see more in front of the ferry belding, but that is episodic. we saw a lot around juneteenth event so think in the future we'll think how to enforce around that because we want to focus attention on the permitted special event and not unpermitted vending happening around it. what we have been doing, we executed a number of what we call deterrent operations so realizing the citations are not super effective, the new approach, so the state law does allow you to direct someone to stop vending if doing outside the
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rules and if they continue to act that way you can confiscate their materials. our deterrent operation is getting out starting the day early with port staff, showing to see if anything is left over night to set up for the next day. if there we ask them to remove it and we have additional port staff coming in shifts encountering anybody that setss up for vending to make sure they have a permit and authorized to be there and if fot they are told they can't vend that day. we still need-generally need pd support for that because people that-sometimes get aggressive asserting their right to do so it is a bit of a challenging scheduling exercise and coordination exercise. generally what we like to do when we do the large deployments is also bring out other agencies that have enforcement jurisdiction like the department of public health as relates to food. the sfmta
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as relates to traffic violations as the vehicle servicing the vendor often ignore traffic regulations and public works support of confin scaigz. these have been successful for the moments. generally vending returns soon thereafter. what we have tried to do is see where the vending goes to see the next targeted interventions are going to be. let's see-moving to the giants games, similar strategy happened there. they already have a lot of enforcement resources allocated to games and so there have been a couple different multiagency enforcement at giants games over the last month that had decent impact and talking with our maintenance division as well as property managers we have seen a ever increasing radius of things
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happening. people pulling over at piers 30 and 32 to sell out of the back of the car. there was impactful confin scaigzs and ramifications of the giants actions but think that lessened but think it is something we have to keep coming back to along with the help of everybody else and the giants coordinating that kind of deployment. lastly, i think we need a better partnership with law enforcement to address the criminal activities, so getting to the next slide--anticipated next steps. i apologize how small the type is here. so, the state alcohol beverage commission staff was out for enforcement three fridays ago and did not encounter many alcohol vendors because the first encountered spread the word but that was important because abc had want been back in a while and we need to bring all the assets we can on that issue. we also met with the district attorney office to
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talk how you build cases because obviously a citation is one thing but someone gets arrested for selling to a miner that is another deturance. we are working with the police department to adjust the work order. we have two full time officers dur during the week and fill in the weekday shifts with overtime more expensive not always the same people. we are moving hopefully and moving to interviews on this to get a second pair of full time officers, so we have half week with one pair, half with the other pair and platoon set up so they have a more consistent relationship with the challenges we meet at the port, challenges we don't meet monday-friday and come on the weekday in particular. another big step forward for us happened yesterday. we on-boarded the new security manager joe riley the former left for department of
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emergency management. we were luck y to have kyle thomas come on board. former sfpd marine unit officer so familiar with the port. i did not tell him i was going to do this but he is here today so happy to have him today so he will hit the ground running and help with better coordination moving forward with former colleagues at pd. we hired two retired sfpd officers on a part time basis to coordinate just the mobile vending enforcement. they have been invaluable bringing in the other agencies and they and i are very focused involving our strategy to address alcatraz landing and not just staying in fisherman's wharf. there is a different condition on that sidewalk compared to little embarcadero so we need different tactics including the motor vehicle aspect of that and how they reply is something we want to get after. we want to partner with public works to get that part of the
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operation going. we want to continue to administer port program regulations. one thing we are focused on for example is this friday the first soft launch activation from the cdb grant you heard, we are looking at the strategies to make sure that is a success, because what i love to see us build is around the special events building enforcement to radiate out not just to keep the space clear but to have eyes on the park so to speak to push it further away. in closing, i don't think we are happy with the current state we are in. i think there is definitely levers to pull to get better. i would imagine we'll never fully get rid of unpermitted street vending because how comprehensive the state law is, but if we can get alcohol and cannabis vending deterred and make sure there is a safe path of travel and people don't feel a little threatened or
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crowded from the waterfront that is the end state we are looking for. that is the current update and happy to answer any questions you have. >> thank you. any public comment in the room? seeing none. corey, anyone on the phone? >> at this time there is no one on the phone wishing to comment. >> thank you. public comment is closed. commissioner lee. >> i have a bunch of questions. how much is fine? >> they start at hundred dollar and each additional infraction goes up from there. >> if you encounter a illegal vendor and give a citation, do you have a (indiscernible) do you stay there and then they have to pack up and leave or is it something that you have to catch in the beginning? >> you go up and see
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them vendor, the security manager writes them up, give their copy of the ticket and say you have to pack and go and you have to stand there and monitor them while they pack up, hoping he would leave. >> i had this experience when i was on the entertainment commission. there was a related-probably different from the port, but there was a related incident a week ago with a shooting because public safety when these people are buying hot dogs or whatever are getting robbed or fights occurring and we dont want that on the port, so i have a few things. i know sfpd is short and a lot of overtime. i understand to sources that the sheriff department might be coming on-board or maybe lobbying for being able to get some of this overtime. have you heard anything about that? >> the sheriff's have a program much like the sfpd
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program called 10b officers where off duty officers can work at sort of private direction. i understand the cbd is as part of its work for us under the grant looking into that, not aware they retained them. but you are right man power is a challenge. some of our tenants i know brought in 10b officers at different time which is expensive but have seen varying levels of success with that. i think we are more excited then that kind of opportunity with the port detail that can really sort of lean in and understand better the networks you are talking about in terms of who is behind these different vendors. it isn't just the vendors, there is clearly something else going on behind that so that is the law enforcement support we need instead of someone coming in that day with that event but we will coordinate with whatever resources we have. >> the reason i say
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that, when we were removing them, it takes them only 5 minutes to pack up and they have van they can put four in and then once you go, about a hour later somebody else shows up and unloads. it is kind of a endless situation. is there a ordinance saying they are not allowed to block the sidewalk? i'm sure dpw must have a ordinance because i know in the entertainment area when we have our lines we have to have pedestrians able to walk by. some of the vendors are blocking the streets and would say that would be a infraction to help with enforcement. but how about going back to signage? is there signage up there and maybe that is bilingual saying if you don't have a permit you will get fined or confin skated? >> there is signage on the
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little embarcadero. we can expand that as well, but there is signage up and down-especially around where the permitted vendor locations stalls are. there are a number of signs to indicate this is part of the program . >> is it bilingual? >> we may not have- >> i think it is helpful if you make them bilingual, especially when we want them to get permits and i read the ordinance saying that some of the restrictions were relaxed, but they are supposed to still get a permit, right? >> yes. >> i bet half of them dont bother, and arguing with you saying we have a right to be here seems to be the course of action. so, basically that's all i have. i wish they would have put in the bill
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that you couldn't be hundred feet in front of a licensed premise. that would solve so much of this problem. >> yes. >> but that's not in the bill. hopefully a legislator might think that is a good thing to amend but it is what it is and have to deal with it. >> to the point about path of travel, that is enforceable. it is hard to do because someone then just moves you cant really stop them doing the rest of the stuff because if your authority is based on path of travel that is retained, but all of these things we-like enforcement has to get every piece of this, and if that's not the solution, in those situations we still need to be able to go in and enforce the path of travel. >> maybe a extra ticket. get a ticket for that and ticket for blocking the sidewalk. i hate to ticket people, but some people dont want to listen, so i mean, it is really
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bad for the permit holders. i feel sorry for them because they are trying to do their best to be compliant. people are illegal and it bothers me. thank you. >> i wanted to make a comment. (indiscernible) we do not not have plans to deploy sheriff. the detail is our plan. there is no plan there. the other thing, mike martin was probably going to speak to it, the sidewalks are regulated as a park in our park code, so we definitely have provisions for not blocking. it must be clear of the public. we have very good provisions in the port code. it is getting all the resources out there. >> yeah. hundred dollars is cheap compared to how much they make. they charge $10 for a hot dog now. can you believe that? so they are making money. anyway-- >> thank you. >> good luck.
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>> commissioner gilman. >> thank you mike for this report and i really appreciate and want to acknowledge how challenging this is. i was curious, are representatives from meda here? >> no, we don't have representative. >> is the grant ongoing? >> our grant sunsetted but very hopeful that they can work with public works as they move forward. >> i think this is just more comments, which i guess is more for the public record and i think we need to acknowledge briefly looking through a equity lens and why the state law was passed and as someone who lived near little embarcadero and are alcatraz landing, these are not mom and pop small immigrant businesses who want to sell authentic food from their home countries and make a start in our society. if they are, i think those are the 50 plus people you spoke about who went through the program and worked with meda or other organizations
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that help do this. i think we need to acknowledge this is my observation, this is organized crime. these are people dribeing driving up and unloading people. i believe we have human traffic going on in the businesses and i watched them and watch the enforcers sit there and intimidate people and intimidate the volunteer patrols from sfpd who wear the blue jackets who are former officers and i have spoken to them and they are at their whits en. i say for the public to understand how challenging it is for us to enforce and do anything. this is one of the few items as a commissioner i get contacted about and particularly alcohol and cannabis sales so i'm deploying sfpd, abc and regulatory agencies that to me that-more then the $10 hot dog, which i did not realize it was that
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expensive or the giant t-shirt, i think the much larger problem is sale to minors of alcohol and cannabis. i see in the jars magic mushrooms. we need to stop the sale of drugs and alcohol of cannabis happening at the waterfront and throughout san francisco so i hope with this new initiative we can really target that and i again as the signage may be commissioner-i would absolutely support large scale signs that say, we cannot validate this food. you might get food poisoning or selling to miners is illegal sore whatever we need to do. i worry how this will effect tourism. i think most san franciscans are in the know if they want to a drink they go to the eagle cafe and not buy a margarita on the waterfront. i worry about it hurting the reputation. if there is something
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that happens with a miner or someone gets ill or sick so i want to make those comments both in empathy and saying whatever we can do i definitely am in favor helping those mom and pops, businesses be successful through micro business programs in city and county of san francisco, but the illegal vending is only going to get worse this summer. i know we have seen reprieve, but it will come back with a fury and i hope we can mitigate our risk and reputation to the public. >> thank you. >> thank you. commissioner harrington. >> wow. [laughter] i wasn't as aware of this issue i guess. unpermitted vendors i get that being a huge issue. evan the permitted venues. just to be clear, i'm new so can ask stupid questions. we
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go out and rent our space we own to people who want to have restaurants and charge a commission for that and then allow people permitted to put up something directly in competition for free, is that how it works? >> yes. >> and is there any limit on the number of people that can be permitted? or vendors that can be permitted? >> i imagine you can institute that as a rule. that is why we do the rotating efforts so we- >> move them around but all permitted. >> now we got more vending permits issued then spaces, so if they all want to operate on a single day, not sure they could do that. >> if somebody comes late they can't fit- >> first come first serve so out early. friday, saturday and sunday and three locations of fisherman's wharf and ferry building you have a lottery spot you need to get to in the morning and if you are
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not there by 1 it is first come first serve. >> how many vendors spaces do we have? >> and think on the order of 11 locations port-wide and 2 to 3 at each so imagine 35 to 40. >> how many unpermitted vendors do you think are out there? >> bigger number then that. especially then a nice weekday now to commissioner gilman's point. i was up at fisherman's wharf two weekdays ago and there were lots of people there. lots of vendors there. excuse me. but to your point, the state law specifically says that a nearby rent paying retail operation is not justification for keeping vending away. that is very much baked into state law. >> i understand. not sure i agree with it, but i
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understand it. good luck. if we can be of any assistance to help with that. [laughter] >> you already have. it wasn't a easy thing for the commission to lean in and be the first to set the rules because people on all sides would have a problem with it. i think that continued support is what we are looking for. >> thank you. >> thank you mike for the report. i echo commissioner harrington's thoughts. good luck. [laughter] this has become a huge issue and just appreciate the fact we are putting it on the for front and trying to combat it and come up with solutions to deter a lot of the illegal vendor and again, it is port wide. it is over by mission rock, by the chase arena, it is all along the waterfront. again, hopefully our resources are distributed evenly throughout the waterfront because
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it is everywhere and something we really have to get a hold on somehow. we are here to help however we can. >> thank you very much. >> thank you for your presentation. a lot of great information. jenica, next item, please. >> item 10a, informational report on local business enterprise contracting activity for fiscal year july 1, 2022 through march 31, 2023 and workforce compliance. for callers who wish to comment on this item, please dial star 3 to raise your hand to comment. >> hello commissioners. my name is (indiscernible) the acting contract procurement manager here for informational item to share about contractor fiscal year 22-23 quarters 1-3. i'll covering two areas, contracting activities for the
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first quarter-three quarters fiscal year including contract awarded payment and developer grument and share improvement and contract practice as relates to outreach equity and (indiscernible) this slide gives a snapshot of the lbe program. there are 989 firms that the general mix of minority owned firms women owned firms and obe is stable over time. the mix of mbe firms shows 99 firms have african american owners and 165 asian american owners. the general trends and lbe availability however is mixed. at the end of fiscal year 21-22, we had 1041lbe and there arecurrently 989 so there has been a decrease. this slide shows contracts entered in the first three quarters of the fiscal year. there was 6
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contracts total and 5 are subject to lbe consulting requirements and bid discount or rating bonus, 14b requirement. over the 5 contracts all 5 awarded to lbe primes or joint vercher with lbe partner. of the primes one minority owned firm and two women owned firms. othe joint venture, both are minority owned. both upper eligible and received theeraltying bonus or bid discount. in addition to each eligible contracting lead by a lbe or joint venture partner, 68 percent of the total value of the contracts is committed to lbe or prime venture partner or lbe subcontractor. this slide shows payments. port made all most $14.5 million in
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payments the first three quarters of the fiscal year 6.4 million. all areas of contracting are doing well with lbe participation. as needed contracts are 46 percent of the total val ue paid out went to lbe in construction 41 percent and professional services at 14 percent. this shows the 5 year trend of contracting dollars. the contract award lbe remain very good. i including the (indiscernible) contracting total here for first three quarters of it fiscal year. the top chart shows contract awarded dollars are at 68 percent. the bottom chart shows payments decreasing but still in line with the 5 year trend. if the trend continues at the one year mark we'll come back with more analysis. private development. the project at pier 7
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0 is $62.7 million and mission raument is $42.7 million. $103.4 million awarded to lbe with $35.9 million going to african american owned firms, 22.4 to asian american owned, 33.4 million to latino owned firmed (indiscernible) before you are 7 strategies to change solicitation documents. i will not cover all 7 but welcome to ask questions. one is outreach of the commission action. we are publishing more look ahead for contracting to start to get the word out earlier about what the port intends to solicit. we had our contracting open house which advertised all our upcoming solicitations and allowed firms to ask questions
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directly to our pm's. we are working with office of [speaker speaking too fast] advertised on a single website that link to our website and link also to the private development websites. (indiscernible) not able to be here today has done fantastic work to create one page project overvie for most of the solicitations and develop (indiscernible) continuing the practice having opt in forms. we also partner with cmg for outreach and have advice on somef oour outreach tactics. we continue to simplify and standardize the rfp responses. (indiscernible) approach, technical experience and give scenario of questions. we put the focus on
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solicitation to technical questions, and not extra graphics marketing or design unless relevant to scope of work in the contract. we heard positive feedback. the proposers encourage par pis ticipation because it reduce the cost. other consultants said they use the form filled out as the outreach tool to new primes in order to help streamline the process of getting on project jz found that to be successful. finally, from panelist to volunteer time to grade these proposals they said the approach is straight forward and easy to find the information and make sure they're grading appropriately. we talked about the benefit of prequalified pools. the pool expanded our use of prequalified pools to include engineering, environmental planning, grant writing and coaching organizational development. we are creating pathways for firms to
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qual that stream line the process for full port and firms respondents and staff this means more time working and are less time proposing. finally, first source hiring check ins. the first source hiring is potentially powerful program that connect san franciscans to entry level jobs in professional service contract. support scheduled regular check ins with the first source hiring staff in order to maximize the opportunities and connect our recruits-their recruits with our contractors. this concludes my presentation on the contracting strategy and the fixes we are engaging in order to make more equitable contracting and welcome your questions and dialogue for my presentation. >> thank you. is there any public comment in the room? seeing none, corey, do we have anyone on the line? >> at this time, there is no one on the phone wishing to make public comment.
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>> thank you. public comment is closed. commissioner gilman. >> i want to thank you for your report. it is always so comprehensive and i really appreciate everything we are moving to to really model the importance of spending our dollars with lbe and firms that are managed by people of color and women so i have no questions and thank you for your work on this. >> thank you. >> thank you. commissioner lee. >> no questions. >> commissioner harrington. >> again, thank you and i do is a question. >> absolutely. >> on page 6, it looks like the amount of awards-the number and amount dropped quite a bit over time and you use the term eligible and trying to think, is this the real contracting for the port or only certain types of contracts eligible for this special consideration? >> yes, and i
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will--eligible means it is not like a full source. some sole source contracts can have requirements but most do not so that is ineligible. federally funded not eligible. those make the projects ineligible, but we do for example on page 4, we do report out for in the fiscal year what was eligible and not eligible so only had one not eligible so far. >> and just the level of activity, in 2018-19 we say 16 contracts for $40 million and last year 10 contracts for 7 or $8 million. >> you will see a incredible (indiscernible) there was staff turnover and there was a flood of
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solicitations at the end of 2022 and just now getting into those contracts so you will see that number match and probably increase the previous years. >> great. thank you. >> absolutely. thank you for the question. >> great questions commissioner harrington. alyssa, this is a great report and you do so well giving it. it is very easy to understand and the staff, you and the staff are doing remarkable work in working with our local business enterprises and it shows. i want to congratulate all of you. thank you. >> thank you. >> jenica, next item,s please. >> item 11 is new business. >> i recorded two items both related to economic recovery plan. one is come back with a qualitative and quantitative metric for the plan and the other is to come back with a discussion about how the plan is reaching partners port wide and making interventions port wide. is there any
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other new business? >> i know we applied for several grants around way finding and signage. i love to get a informational report maybe before-maybe during the summer or by september the latest where we are are that, particularly with all the cruise ships coming in. i saw royal caribbean was in this week, so i love to understand that. >> any other new business? >> i have a question. not new business. the ferry building in the back here, have we always considered splint ing it? it has a kitchen if i remember right-the albatross back there. there is a kitchen, a great coffee shop so during the festivals and could be a great steak house upstairs. i'm sure
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there is logistics. it is such a big piece of property, i don't think we will be able to rent that thing for a while. >> we will come back and speak to you about this facility and we have our process with the broker completed. they are touring the space now and it is very large and doesn't reflect the market of today t. is a bit of albatross and was built for the bart construction and never demolished so history you will hear about when we when xh to speak of it. >> okay, i like that building. >> when you do the presentation, i love to understand the cost benefit analysis about-because we own that property, correct? >> absolutely. >> i love to understand cost benefit analysis without just demoing it. depending what the broker says, it could be a alternative and think we should be aware of that as a option.
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>> any other questions or comments? can i have a motion to adjourn? >> motion to adjourn. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> any opposed? the meeting is adjourned at 509 p.m. thank you everyone. [meeting adjourned] .
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>> thank you, everyone. um, for 32nd we're to grateful you've joined us more to historic mentally ill and in disability and affordable housing i'm already crying and we've not started yet (laughter) today it groundbreaking the kelsey civic center can i get another rounding. >> (clapping). >> wow. >> my name is ali and i used the pronounce and really proud to lead our policy work at the kelsey before we continue with today's program i'd like to share the beginning the development process for the kelsey civic center we reached out to um, the association